When visiting Rebecca's family in February, Hallie "made" me (which I am so GLAD she did!) watch a BBC television show called "The Simple Life". We watched two episodes and I really enjoyed them. Upon returning home, I checked into our local library to see if they had it on their shelves. Sadly, they do not, though I haven't looked into borrowing from another library, nor have I let them know that if they got them for the library, I would certainly check them out. They take suggestions all the time, apparently, so I need to simply turn in the form!

Sometimes you sign your kids up for just the right thing at just the right time. We decided to go with the National Little League for Kate and Caroline. Caroline is playing T-Ball/Coach Pitch. If they can't hit it after 5 pitches, they get the T. Caroline almost always hits a pitch! And Kate is playing softball, majors division. That's always interesting since most of the girls still can't pitch really well, but its better than minors!

Anyway, because some parent was at the right place at the right time and was persistent enough, Brandon Inge, 3rd baseman for the Detroit Tigers, came to our fields today to give autographs. He also posed for pictures and threw out the first pitch for one of the baseball games. What's really neat is that he did this on his own time, he was not compensated and it was his birthday. What a nice guy!

Thought this might be the best place to share my experience with Celiac Disease so far and a good topic for my first blogging experience.

**** Warning, this may be too graphic for some. I tried to make sure it didn't get too detailed!! And it may get a little deep - sorry Hallie.****

So I've been gluten free for almost 5 months. I know that gluten sypmtoms/consequences can take different amounts of time for different people to disappear. But here's my observations so far.

My last known piece of gluten was a very yummy coffee cake I used to make for special occasions. I should have made it more, it's so good! I haven't tried it gluten free (gf) but I hope to some day!