Allergic Reactions and a Broken Fence

Yesterday was not my day. It all started out when I realized that Livie was breaking out again with a rash after eating green beans. It now seems that she has a reaction to rice cereal, oatmeal cereal, and green beans. I am starting to worry that she will not be able to eat anything. I called the doctor again about her eating issues and they are referring her to an allergist for allergy testing. Then we will actually be able to know what she can and cannot have. For now she is stuck with just her bottle again. Dear Livie, Mommy is so sorry that I cannot feed you with the spoon like you want. Please forgive me when you open your mouth so big to eat and I cannot put anything in it. I promise you will not go hungry and that I will try to figure things out as quickly as I can.

Then I was so frustrated by her eating issues that as I was sitting down to eat my meal (a turkey burger patty and zero point vegetable soup (Weight Watchers), I part of my soup onto my plate and into my ketchup. If that was the end of it, I would have been okay.

That was not the end of it. My DH and I decided to do some work outside since my MIL was there to watch Livie. We weeded the food and flower gardens and then I got on the mower. I got about a forth of the way through with the back yard and got to the garden section. My DH had put up a beautiful chicken wire fence around the garden to keep the animals out of it. As I was coming around the corner of the garden, two feel away from it, the front tire of the mower pulled back and got caught on the casing for the blade. This threw me left and ran over the side of the chicken wire fence. The wire got all caught in the blade and the fence was taken down. And my DH had spent about six hours getting the fence put up. When I realized the mower was also broken, I broke down and cried.

The silver lining to all of this: My little Livie is still my little Livie and I can go home and hug and kiss her all I was even without the solid foods. My burger was not ruined by adding the soup to it. And most of all, my husband was not mad either about the fence or the mower. He told me it would be okay and that we would just have to fix them. Then he hugged me. I love my family!