Food issues, siding (done!) and a special visitor...

The food elimination saga continues.  We've had a few leads and improvements, so that is encouraging.  It has really thrown us off our regular menu, though, and that's taken a lot of time and focus.  Not that I haven't had any help in the kitchen... ;)

I catch myself wishing that we could just ignore the issues and eat like normal people ~ whoever that is and whatever it is that whoever that is eats. ;)   But, on a better day, I'm just thankful that there is hope that someday we'll get this all figured out and we'll feel better because of it.


Meanwhile, the rest of life continues on at its usual pace.  Gerald finished the siding on the addition - woohoo!  The last of the addition projects is finished. What a nice feeling to not have anything urgent on the go (unless you count the work van that's in mid-repair...)  Not that there aren't any projects looming...just less urgent ones so we can take a bit of a breather and not feel so much pressure to push on. 

The colour is really a bit darker than it appears here.  It's a dark gray with green in it - giving it a warm, earthy tone.  We're really happy with it - it has a crisp, clean look contrasted with the white trim.

Of course, seeing the new siding on this part makes us want to get the rest of the house redone sooner than later.  But all in good time, right?

A few weeks ago Gerald's mom was able to come for a visit.  I caught these pictures of some special time with Nadia...

Yesterday was Family Day, and I was pretty sure that the one thing I didn't want to do was search for and try out new recipes, so we didn't.  I'll post pics of the day next time.