Some Fantastic News!

Ian had a school physical a couple of weeks ago and so while we were there I asked the doctor to run a blood test on him to check his allergen reactivity. Ian was such a trooper during the appointment. He made me proud. Well, this past Monday we headed back to the doctor for an appointment to go over the results. I took this as an opportunity to take Ian on a day out with Mommy alone. We left Aaron with the sitter because who really wants to take a healthy baby to the doctor's office anyway.

Ian was weighed and measured and we went in the room to wait for the doctor. He came in and then went to get the results from the computer. He came back in and showed me the lab reports. I took one look at them and nearly started crying. Ian is no longer reacting to dairy proteins or eggs! I just teared up! This past 30 months of dealing with dairy allergies has been such a weight on my shoulders. Reading every label, policing every snack, watching the school and the CDC's food regimens, paperwork, etc. It's all OVER! My child can be normal and have what the other kids have. Birthday cake. Ice cream. Chocolate candy. No restrictions. No more carting around a "substitute" for cake. No more making sure that no one hands him a cookie that he can't have. No more trying to make his food as close to the other kids' but without the dairy. He's outgrown it and we can put this past us!

So we left the doctor's office, our lab reports in hand, and then Ian and I went to Chuck E Cheese to meet some friends and celebrate! Ian had cheese on his pizza and loved it. It's been 2.5 years since he has deliberately eaten a dairy product. I am pleased to report that he had no skin reactivity (sometimes the lab tests can be wrong.) Here's a picture of my dairy eating little man!


Ian and I had a lot of fun just the two of us and he melted my heart when he asked if he could have some "M beans" when we were in Hobby Lobby. Ian knew that he could have "S beans," also known as Skittles, but that the "M beans," aka M&Ms were off limits in the past. So he had his first packet of M&Ms on the way home. When I asked him what they tasted like he said "Yummy Chocowate." He also said, " The gween ones are my favowite because gween is my favowite colwor."

2 Reasons To Celebrate, One Blessed Day!

Two reasons, you say? You probably figure that I am blogging about being the mother to 2 amazing boys and that they are my 2 reasons to celebrate. Well they are only 1/2 of the 2. The other is my wonderful husband! Today marks our 6th wedding anniversary. As I would have had it, we wouldn't have been married on May 10th. But as it turned out, wait I mean as the Army would have it, we were unable to keep the July 12th date as we originally planned because of an impending deployment. So when we scrambled to find a date, the only one available was Mother's Day weekend because no else wanted to marry the same weekend that honors mothers. As it works out, it's nearly perfect! How do families begin? With mothers and fathers who get married and promise to love, honor and cherish each other all the days of their lives. Their promises before God to live as one and to be fruitful and multiply are how I actually now have the honor to celebrate Mother's Day as well.

So six years ago today, I was a blushing bride. It was a glorious day of tornadoes and thunder storms, wedding vows, family and friends, and the promise of a wonderful future together. I got married in the church with my 3 best friends standing beside me and my husband in front of me. Everyone who was important to me was there in spite of the weather and when the ceremony was over, the sun came out so full and radiant that there was a rainbow! You see promises were everywhere!




The past few years have passed in a blink. My husband deployed in July of that year and was gone for a year on a deployment. When he returned, we moved to South Carolina, had a son and watched with wonder as we learned to be parents.

(Ian Curtis 11/06/05)



Another PCS to us to Florida where we were blessed with another son and here I am today in Texas surrounded by 2 wonderful little boys that I am entrusted to raise to know God and to become good men like their father. Each day I look into the eyes of my children and now know a little more about how my mother felt about my brother and me.

(Aaron William 7/14/08)



Being a wife and mother has only changed me for the better. I celebrate today with my husband who is across the sea working to help keep everyone in this country free. I celebrate with my children the honor of being their mother. But mostly I thank God for giving these wonderful people to enrich my life. I am truly blessed beyond measure.

Happy Anniversary, Bill! I love you so very much. Thank you for everything that you have provided me and the boys with over the past years. Thank you for being my constant friend and confidant. Thank you for being my husband and for being such a great father to my children. Without you, I wouldn't get to celebrate this wonderful day as your wife or as a mother to our boys! I miss you, but I know that you are thinking of us in the same way that we are thinking of you. Be safe!


(Mother's Day 2009)