Peanut Allergies and the Peanut

Since the little porpoise was diagnosed with a milk allergy, allergens have become one of my biggest pre-occupations and neurosis. While her diet is basically just Soy formula and rice cereal right now, it's been very easy to manage the milk allergy. My bigger concern is that I somehow created an allergic kid. What allergies have yet to be discovered? Mostly, I fear the peanut allergy.

My husband's love for peanut butter borders on obsessive. He eats it all the time - peanut butter on English muffins for breakfast, peanut butter granola bars for snacks and peanut butter ice cream for dessert. His favorite part of the holidays - Reeses Peanut Butter Christmas Trees.

Now, while he's chowing on peanut butter by the spoonful and showering the Little Porpoise with loving kisses and playful zerberts, one news story sticks in my mind - the girl who kissed her boyfriend after he ate a PB&J and died!

Laundry Explosions

Hi there. It's been awhile.

While I've been gone for over a year, I'm still neurotic about the same stuff. As proof, my first post back has a similar theme as the last post before I left: Home Explosions.

Here is a story I heard over the summer. An old lady had a gas dryer (so do we). She smelled gas and went down to the basement to investigate. Realizing it was coming from the dryer she thought it would be a good idea to open the door and air it out. So she did, and the door sparked, igniting the gas-filled bowl inside. The explosion knocked her back, action-movie style. She died.

Crazy way to die, right? The thing is I am certain that I would have done the exact same thing. Have you ever had a pilot light go out on an old gas stove? You open the window to air out the house, right? So that would have been my thought with the dryer. I would have opened the basement window, then opened the dryer. Boom! Dead. I asked my husband what he would have done. Boom! Dead.

So, now I am neurotic about both house fires, AND our poor decision-making skills and lack of common sense.