IamWhatIeatproject.com is part of the fresh start I made this week. Finely focusing on my project about my allergic daughter. The relationship between the mother and the child is of vital importance. As are the strong liaisons with her sisters. Our little community made things more easy for Solange. To live and to deal with limitations caused by allergies can be much less dramatic when you feel supported by your environment. Allergies become challenges. Basic food, healthy ingredients and common sense are high priority. Reasonable acting for a youngster sounds far from easy to accomplish but in the case of my daughter it is just the only choice.
To get there is a long way, a challenge, an emotional fight not without frustations.
The IAmWhatIEatProject forms a unity with the blogs we are creating.
Just some notes:
The Blue Birthday cake has a special signification for me in her history. Today 11 years old, she has a long history in living and travelling abroad and who knows that it gave me the attitude of never being to much stressed out with her variety of allergies.
When you are away, without the extended family around, having your first child, you need to take the decisions by your own.
When we start testing Solange for allergies, I spoke with the analphylaxis organisation in the Netherlands, I felt depressed. The woman I spoke to was so nervous about everything. I didn't feel things the same way she did. Now many years after this conversation, I do respect her opinion and I think in the end we all need to act and to deal with the allergies of our children in our very personal way. A way that fits the family.
Mother of 3 teenage daughters 1 deadly allergic. Inspired by my intuition and eclecticy. Expatriated around the world: reinventing life.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Monday, September 29, 2008
Sunday, September 28, 2008
new start in rabat
Ok it's sunday and it is a sunny day.
This summer I made the promise to my sister that we would both focus on our writing projects during the year of 2008 - 2009. She in Berlin and me here in Rabat.
So as life is getting more settled in and back to normal....school started a while ago, kids are integrated and really doing fine. The climate is a revisited for us.....Cassis feels so close now and unless colours aren't the same, the sun is and the wealthy of vegetation is so rich that I can admitt that we feel all a lillte bit home.
fact is that getting concentrated towards my writings is difficult but the positive thing is that since I am here and we do have this fantastic terrace I red all my writings untill now and I am feeling ready to restart.
There is no longer an excuse. I need to finish this story book about my daughter and het allergies. This afternoon I red an interesting blog from a mother in Canada.
Her way of handling things with her kids are helpful.
Ofcourse being in Morocco we will be confronted with less food choice and alternatives for the allergies than we had in Lausanne.
But that is exciting and asks both more creativity and responsability.
This summer I made the promise to my sister that we would both focus on our writing projects during the year of 2008 - 2009. She in Berlin and me here in Rabat.
So as life is getting more settled in and back to normal....school started a while ago, kids are integrated and really doing fine. The climate is a revisited for us.....Cassis feels so close now and unless colours aren't the same, the sun is and the wealthy of vegetation is so rich that I can admitt that we feel all a lillte bit home.
fact is that getting concentrated towards my writings is difficult but the positive thing is that since I am here and we do have this fantastic terrace I red all my writings untill now and I am feeling ready to restart.
There is no longer an excuse. I need to finish this story book about my daughter and het allergies. This afternoon I red an interesting blog from a mother in Canada.
Her way of handling things with her kids are helpful.
Ofcourse being in Morocco we will be confronted with less food choice and alternatives for the allergies than we had in Lausanne.
But that is exciting and asks both more creativity and responsability.
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