Not only does Mia have a birthday party to attend this Saturday for one of her classmates at school, but I was informed earlier this week that two of Mia's classmates are celebrating their birthdays this week at school, as well. Therefore, there will be TWO birthday parties this Thursday and one more on Saturday. Suddenly, I get this sinking feeling in my stomach. Birthday parties means "party food" and "party food" means pizza, ice cream and cake - three things Mia can't have.
Lucky for me, one of Mia's teachers is a friend of mine who informed me what the menu will be: cupcakes at 10:00 a.m. (why anyone would give three year olds cupcakes this early in the morning is beyond me!) and then pizza and MORE cupcakes for lunch. Woah! Can anyone say "sugar overload?" Good luck getting those 20 kids down for naps! Ack!
So, in the attempt to make sure my daughter does not feel left out, I headed out to Whole Foods, hoping to hunt down a GF-DF pizza just for her. I've already made GF-DF cupcakes for her - piece of cake! Heh heh! But, Mia hasn't had pizza in almost a year now. Birthday parties can be a BIG headache for parents who have kids who are on special diets.
However, I struck it rich today! Low and behold, in the frozen foods isle at WF, I discovered these:
I quickly snatched up three of them (costing an arm and a leg - about $20) and made one for Mia for dinner tonight to try it out on her before sending it in with her to school tomorrow. She LOOOOVED it! And I almost cried....and then quickly regained my composure after Mia gave me this funny, teenageresque look like, "Mom...what is wrong with you??" LOL! It has been sooo long since she has been able to eat something like that. And I enjoyed every moment of it. Probably more than she did!
Suddenly, I love birthday parties once again. :)
Dana I stumbled across your blog and I can not stop reading it. I have a two year old daughter who was diagnosed this march with jra. Your story is so similar to ours, it just amazes me. My daughter Ayla started with only one joint involved and now has four. She had steroid injections in june which helped her knee tremendously but her ankle and elbow are still swollen and are causing her pain. She is on naproxen now but the Dr. wants to start her on mtx.( sed rate is in 60's) We are very reluctant to do so. I have been reading about Mia's diet and am very interested. This is the first time I have ever heard of this and I just have a ton of questions to ask. I do not know where to begin with the diet. I really do not know much about blogging either, I tried to find your email address but was unlucky. If you do not mind I would love to hear from you. Lesli626@aol.com...your children are beautiful.. Ayla just turned 2 August 31st, and my son Brennan is 10 months.. your children look close in age like mine...hope to hear from you. Lesli
ReplyDeleteHooray! I'm glad you found something she could and would eat so she can be the party girl I knew she was born to be :)
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