Take That Mary Poppins

Anyone who denies the fact that what you eat affects you can bite me. 

I know that sounds mean, but I am in a mean state, being sick now for what seems like a hundred years. It has been in actuality a few weeks, but with a family this size chaos is a day away.  I have been suffering from a coldfluplague, and my kids have had Croup.  I was on the mend and then I made the mistake of eating out.*pullshairoutofscalp* being Celiac really messes up my social life.

"Hey, do you want to join us for Dinner?"

"No thank you.  Whatever effort you put in to make sure I can eat it, the food will still hurl me into an abyss of pain that childbearing doesn't hold a candle to, not to mention the months afterward of catching whatever germs my little monsters bring into the house, or the guilt I will feel once you find out how sick I got after eating at your house."

Yeah, doesn't really open the doors for many invites.

 

We have been surviving on soup and rice, because who wants to go grocery shopping even on a good day?  I had to eventually bite the bullet and go yesterday, my eldest commented that my cart looked liked Grannies......funny how he made that connection.  (Granny always had at least 9 kids at home at one time, but she fed more.) The cashier was happy to see me, she said she hadn't seen me in a while, wondered what might have happened, and I told her my life in the last two weeks.  She was sympathetic.  I think.

On my way out of the grocery store, the woman manning the bank kiosk gasped at the load I was pushing.  She went into the shpeal about how much I would saveblahblahfreegroceriesblahblahandwho doesn'twanttosaveongasblahblahblahblah.  I smiled and chirped to her that I will speak to my husband, because of our five kids we spend quite a bit on food and gas a week so maybe we should look into it....

"FIVE?!  YOU have FIVE kids?  You look entirely too young to have FIVE kids!"

I told her I wasn't that young.

"Well, you are doing something wonderful because you look incredible."

Being told this, after being bedridden, living in jammies, covered in snot, not necessarily my own, and not wearing any make up because my plan was to collapse back into bed once the groceries were put away did more than make my day.

First time I wanted to kiss a woman on the mouth.