I pulled off another family summer road trip last month. When you live in FL, you don’t want to vacation at the beach, you vacation in the mountains or desert, especially for the benefit of the children who think palm trees are normal foliage. So we went to the anti-Florida, which we deemed to be … Continue reading
We pulled off another (ok, just our second) major road trip this summer. Using our pop up camper, some friends’ homes, and the occasional hotel, we toured the southeast for two weeks. We were largely successful, in that we all had fun, spent a lot of time outdoors, and I had few chemical reactions. We … Continue reading
It’s snowing. It’s the end of March in Nashville, TN and it’s snowing. I love Tennessee, the place where I was born and raised, but I moved to Florida so that I can be outside year round without being cold. My husband and children are vacationing in Phoenix and they are not cold. Hmmm, this … Continue reading
There are many small things that I miss about being healthy, but there are only two BIG things that I really miss. Yikes, I already messed that up – I am trying to not think or write the phrase “when I was healthy”. I am healthy; there are just a lot of things I have … Continue reading
I did not keep my eye on the ball last week. Or maybe there were too many balls or the ball was too big. Probably, I should stop the ball analogy. Once a year, I travel to Maryland for an in-person visit with my EI physician Dr. Grace Ziem. Under her care, my chemical sensitivities … Continue reading
Family vacations are the light at the end of a long school tunnel and the counterbalance to a parent’s long working hours. They give our children a chance to gain new perspective on the world and our families a chance to reconnect from our splintering lives. We need them. But as a mom with MCS, … Continue reading
