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  1. Mosaics

    Gluten Reactions

    By Mosaics,

    I'm usually a stickler about not cheating on the diet even though I never had any really terrible reactions. But a couple of months ago I went to a tea that a friend had for the ladies at church. Of course, tea sandwiches were served. Lots of different kinds of yummy things on little tiny pieces of bread. I love that kind of stuff. I didn't want to NOT eat anything and all the ladies said, "Oh you can just scrape the bread off and eat the fillings." I knew that the gluten...
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    I must lead a pretty dull life. I blogged for two days and ran out of things to say.
     
    I told my celiac story, so maybe I'll tell a little about my life...well my blog is supposed to be all about me, right?
     
    I'm a 45 year old married SAHM of two children...21 y.o. daughter and 16 y.o. son and I'm a Christian. I'm also an artist and I love to read.
     
    My husband is an electrical engineer and has spent most of his career life working with computer co...
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    Hi everybody. I'm just learning about blogs and trying to figure it all out. It's funny because my husband and I were talking about blogging last night and he asked me if I'd like for him to set up a blog for me (he's a computer genius ), but I said, "What would I have to talk about?" Then, lo and behold, this morning I got a message from celiac.com telling me that they have a new blog feature. It must be a sign that I need a blog.
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    Too Busy

    By Mosaics,

    We've been working on our farm and trying to get the house ready to move into. The remodel took longer than expected, mostly because we found termite damage when we took down the thirty year old paneling and had to rebuild some walls.
     
    We hope to move out there permanently within the month and are really looking forward to it. Driving back and forth between our houses is very tiresome...not to mention, expensive!
     
    I write about farm life on my other b...
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    Excellent Recipe

    By Mosaics,

    I made this recipe a couple of nights ago and it was wonderful! It's a salmon topped with crab-cake. I got the salmon part of the recipe from the Dallas Morning News. It called for store-bought crab cakes, which of course, have bread in them, so I looked on www.allrecipes.com for a crab cake recipe that I could make myself and tweak to make it gluten-free. It was super easy to make. The recipe said to serve it with a tartar or roumalade sauce and I usually do have to have...
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    I Can See Clearly Now...

    By Mosaics,

    the rain is gone. I can see all obstacles in my way...
     
    I got contact lenses.
     
    This has been a difficult couple of years for me, vision-wise. I've always had great vision and didn't have to wear glasses or contacts up until I was about 40 or so. I had to get some reading glasses. Since then, my vision has gotten worse and I've need some correction for my distance vision. At first I tried the no-line bifocals, but I couldn't use those at all. They w...
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    Holiday Menu

    By Mosaics,

    I'm not having many people for the holidays, so I'm just going to keep it simple and easy. There will be ten of us, so I just bought two turkey breasts rather than a whole turkey. I'll also make mashed potatoes and cornbread dressing. Mom is bringing sweet potatoes. I can't decide whether to just have a tossed salad or make some other green vegetable. For another vegetable dish, I bought the ingredients to make a new recipe called Yellow Velvet. It has kernel corn and...
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    Hawaii Bound

    By Mosaics,

    My first child has flown the nest. She is moving to Hawaii. I drove with her to California so that she could ship her car from there. Then I flew home by myself. I can't go in her room yet. I know it was past time for her to go, but it still hurts.
  9. Mosaics

    Freak Cold

    By Mosaics,

    I'm home from my California T-giving holiday. I survived.
     
    I'm really bummed, though. I haven't had a cold/sinus infection/flu or anything like that since going on the gluten-free diet almost four years ago. I don't know if it's a coincidence or if it actually has something to do with gluten. Anyway, I was beginning to think I was immune and was never going to have another cold again, which was a thrilling thought. I was feeling somewhat invincible and smug....
  10. Mosaics
    Well, Thanksgiving is almost upon us and for the first time in my life I'm dreading it. It's my favorite holiday, one in which I've almost always spent with my parents, brothers and sisters, and their children. For the last 15 +/- years they've all come to my house for the holiday. Our numbers have dwindled somewhat because of children growing up, going to college, getting married and my oldest brother moved to FL so they haven't been able to make the trip the last two years...
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    All Gluten Free

    By Mosaics,

    While browsing the on-line gluten-free store, I came across a site that gave the name and address of a local store that sells a certain bread mix. As an aside, it said that the store has freshly baked gluten-free bread. So today I decided to check it out. The place is called Delicious & Fit (stupid name if you ask me). Anyway, I was a little confused when I walked in because the store front was actually a small restaurant. When I enquired about the products, they directed...
  12. Mosaics

    Testing Starbucks

    By Mosaics,

    I'm a big fan of Starbuck's mocha drinks. My favs are toffee nut mocha frappuccino and when it's cold, I like to drink a cafe mocha from time to time. Hmmm, the last two times I had one, I noticed that I got really bad diarrhea within 12 hours of drinking them. I was beginning to wonder if they had gluten...or something that was making me sick...maybe too much lactose? Anyway, I decided to test it. I went for a week without any. All is well. So I had one a few hours...
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    Patio Repairs

    By Mosaics,

    I finally, finally got around to repairing my patio. I think I've got pics on this blog of the concrete patio that I painted a couple of years ago. This spring we had to have foundation repairs and the company that did it had to chop four holes in the patio. It was extremely annoying, but even more so because I asked them to be especially careful not to toss their tools around and chip the patio any more than they had to. Well, they totally ignored that plea. They chipped...
  14. Mosaics

    Kidney Stone!

    By Mosaics,

    OUCH!
     
    I had a kidney stone attack on Monday. I don't think I've ever felt such pain...maybe childbirth, but this was different. It was a sick pain with no end in sight. At least when you birth a child you know it will end and something good will come of it.
     
    The pain started at about 10:30 in the morning. It was a sharp pain like a muscle spasm from my bladder down my urethra. I thought it might be an extra bad bladder infection, so after a while I...
  15. Mosaics
    Here's a good article on a restaurant owner in NY who has taken gluten-free to heart:
     
    Open Original Shared Link
     
    JOSEPH PACE
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    The Celiac Family

    By Mosaics,

    My nephew got married this past weekend. All of my bros. and my sister, and all but two of my mother's siblings attended. The wedding was in Longview, so my out-of-town relatives came here for a couple of days, then we all drove to Longview for a weekend of parties.
     
    My brother and his wife, parents of the groom, paid for our hotel rooms for the weekend. They also invited us all to the rehearsal dinner. My sister-in-law was very careful about the menu and quizzed ...
  17. Mosaics

    Gray And Black?

    By Mosaics,

    Is it just me, or is the board gray and black now? I don't like it.
  18. Mosaics
    PETITION DENIED. That's what the notice said. That's what we expected. Now the question is, do we file a petition for reconsideration, or do we go back to the civil courts?
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    Eieio Update

    By Mosaics,

    Well, we were working out a deal on the property that I told about in my EIEIO blog entry. We told them we needed to get a survey done. Then the owner's attorney e-mailed us and told us that they want a $38,000.00 non-refundable deposit that they get to keep if we don't close the deal in 45 days.
     
    Uh, NO.
     
    So they wrote back and said they are done negotiating.
     
    The deal is off unless they change their mind and contact us again. Maybe it's ...
  20. Mosaics

    Pancake Balls

    By Mosaics,

    One of our favorite restaurants is the local Indian Restaurant. We've been going there for many years and for most of those years I've been eating their "pancake balls". Well, that's not really what they're called. I don't know the real indian name, but they are like balls of pancake with a honey syrup, served warm. They aren't wonderful...mostly because they aren't chocolate , but it's nice to end the meal with a little sweet.
     
    When I was diagnosed with celiac ...
  21. Mosaics

    Supreme Court

    By Mosaics,

    I might have mentioned somewhere in my blog that my husband and I have been fighting the IRS for about 8-10 years. The tax courts have ruled against us every step of the way, so we have to appeal to the Supreme Court. My husband has been doing a lot of the motion and brief writing himself to save money on attorney fees. Seriously, he's learned enough to become an attorney by now.
     
    Anyway, he wrote the brief, actually it's called a Petition for Writ of Certiorari,...
  22. Mosaics

    Ignorance Abounds

    By Mosaics,

    Ack!
     
    I have a friend whose family is going through a terrible time. She has cancer for the second time, her youngest daughter has been diagnosed as bi-polar, her three y.o. son is out of control and won't behave, her husband won't help discipline the children. Seems the only one in the family without a major issue (other than living in such a chaotic environment), is the oldest daughter.
     
    So, anyway, I was doing a google search about the link between b...
  23. Mosaics

    Eieio

    By Mosaics,

    So...my husband and I have been thinking about buying some land and becoming self-sufficent.
     
    We've been looking at various properties since last fall and trying to decide what to do. We finally made an offer on an 80-acre property a few weeks ago. Our offer was rejected, so we thought, "Well, it just wasn't meant to be." But the owners of the property e-mailed us just a couple of days ago telling us they changed their mind and will now take our offer. So ...
  24. Mosaics
    Ack! I have got to stop eating like a pig!
     
    My clothes are getting tight. I can't stand it. It doesn't help when everyone around me thinks I'm thin and smirk when I mention losing weight. I start thinking, "Well, maybe I'm not as fat as I think...yeah, in fact, I am lookin' gooood." Then I put my jeans on and try to button them. That's when reality sets in. I'm going to try to go back to eating low-carb. It's so hard because I love the carbs...chips,...
  25. Mosaics

    Republican Dinners

    By Mosaics,

    My husband and I went to our first ever Republican Party dinner. It's not really my "thang", but we needed to go because my husband is considering running for Congress in 2008. We needed to do a "meet and greet".
     
    Anyway, we had specified ahead of time that I needed a gluten-free meal. The person my husband talked to on the phone told us that one gluten-free meal had already been requested for someone else, so it would be no problem for me to have one, too. So ...
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