EFY went well. Rachel had a wonderful time and talked about the Spirit she felt and got to go to her first dance. She called me every night. Danny had a chip on his shoulder all week and before he left. I never found out exactly what his problem was. He just seems like he doesn't want to do anything that I think is a good idea sometimes. He barely responded to my texts for 2 days and then he stopped all together. When he got home he was in just as grumpy as ever and acted like I was judging him. I just tried to love him and ignore his bad attitude and ask him about the week. And by the end of that day he was nice again and he's been nice since then. While the bigs were gone, we went to see a movie and we went to the water slides.
Danny was home for a couple days and then he left to drive to Texas with Blake's family. They're having a good time there and he will fly home in a few days. Rachel has started intramural volleyball at the school to get ready for tryouts when school starts. We only have one week now until the first day of school. I think we're about ready. We have the carpool figured out and uniforms purchased. We just need to get a few more school supplies.
Seth and I started doing gluten-free on Aug. 1. I want to see if going off gluten will help his allergies and eczema and attention. I am probably more like "low gluten" because I'm not as good at following it. And I know there are lots of hidden places they put gluten so hopefully we are getting most of it out. We've still been doing regular oats, but now I'm thinking I should buy gluten free oats to make sure we're getting it out. We'll see. Recently several sources I really like for learning about nutrition and that make a lot of sense with the word of wisdom say that gluten isn't really good for anyone. I'm torn with that one because that's what got me going on studying the word of wisdom in the first place. There is a lot of research that says gluten does a lot of harm. And they probably have changed wheat some since the word of wisdom was given and we probably eat more of it than was intended. But I still feel a confused about it. So I keep praying and thinking about it.
My breathing and sleep continue to improve. My sleep recently made a huge jump. I got a sleep mask to try to help with my dry eyes and that combined with whatever else I'd been doing have helped me to sleep though the night so much better! It used to feel like the night was a little bit of an ordeal. Where I would try so hard to fall asleep and then I'd wake up wide awake who knows how many times in the night and have to start the process over. But now it's finally back to how it should be where I go to sleep and I might wake up in the night, but it's just for a minute and I easily fall back asleep. It feels so wonderful.
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