Goodbye Garlic Bread & Celebrations to Come

So two weeks has passed since my last entry... busy times trying to get things done before the Cheeky Boy heads into hospital on Monday. Here's hoping for a nice week ahead and I hope that we all adjust to his Ketogenic diet without too much upset. It's going to be a challenge in the sense that he loves his pasta, garlic bread and carbohydrates in general so we will have to cut down on these things ourselves to help keep him from wanting them. If he sees garlic bread coming out of the oven, he will literally drop anything he is eating to have the garlic bread. See the problem we have is that he will not understand why he can not have these foods anymore, as I said he really does LOVE them.

 

Who could really blame him for loving such foods as we all love fresh made garlic bread :-)

 

so the best thing for us to do for now is to eat it after he is asleep!

 



Please keep your fingers and toes crossed for this diet helping him reduce his seizures and making his life just that little more easier everyday.

As for the business end of things for me, with October just around the corner, my RozArt website is going to have a front page facelift and with RozArt on Facebook, I am going to be running a few competitions to celebrate the 1 Year Birthday of their launch!! Oh there's fun to be had!!!! So please keep a look out and join us all there for the fun :-)

And to finish off:

A Moment of Quiet

I don't know about you but I feel that sometimes you feel like you have accomplished nothing in a day, but when you stop and have a look at all the small things that you have done, it actually adds up to a lot. I have also realised once I have stopped for a moment that my mind is so busy that I forget what I was actually trying to do at that moment in time...sound familiar??

 

I have had an afternoon where the hubby had taken the two cheeky children out to a birthday party, as I was working out of home for the morning I could not go. Anyhow, a house with no one else in it is a true delight and is calming when you have a moment to be still in it. I had friend post this following statement on Facebook and if you have children, you will know exactly how to relate to this :-)

I am of course writing this Blog entry now that the children are asleep!

Yet asleep, I have been thinking of what shall I write? not feeling too inspired... then I decided to take a moment to open an email from a good friend who is much older and wiser than me and inspires me from a distance. The email I opened is of Zen music with beautiful pictures of nature that inspire a restful mind and a clearness of thought, hence I have now been able to write and feel inspired :-) always a nice thing :-)

We all have so much chaos in our lives it's nice to have a moment like this just to be. 

I have been feeling an increase of stress when thinking of dealing with the Cheeky Boy going into hospital for a week to start his Ketogenic diet, only two weeks to go until this stay. Any parent who has had a child in hospital understands that when sharing a room with up to three other families is hard at anytime, especially when your child is unwell or in my case,  I have a little monkey who likes to start his mornings at 5.30am or earlier. At home I can sometimes convince him to have more sleep but I am not looking forward to him having to settle in a shared room and turning a TV or entertaining him with toys at that hour in a hospital is not really easy to do...so not looking forward to the early mornings there. Walking around the ward isn't a good idea either as all the other kids tend to be sleeping... I will have to get creative with things... two weeks to figure it out!

 

If you are interested in reading more on the Ketogenic diet for helping people with epilepsy here is a link for you:

http://www.charliefoundation.org/

The lovely Meryl Streep does an introduction to what the diet is about :-)

If you would like to feel a little more relaxed and calm of mind... this link is for you:

Zen Garden Music

I hope you all have a lovely and relaxed week ahead :-)

A Year On... & Ketogenic Diets

So for my regular readers... yes I missed a week for an entry...

A year has passed since I started putting my online business together and having it launched in October 2012! So much has happened - not much sleep has been had between the Cheeky Boys seizures, numerous hospital visits and making pieces for my RozArt website (well over two hundred items put on my site so far and counting!!), doing courses, starting up stalls in various local markets, shows and community events. Opening RozArt on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and of course this Blog, I felt a week off from a blog entry was justified... a wee bit tired and needing a rest :-) I have to add raising a Cheeky Girl in the mix and running a household and of course we can't forget the hubby in there too :-)
 

 

I have spent the last week at my parents place but that hasn't stopped me from attending a few events including the Furry Fun Day for the Animal Welfare League of NSW yesterday which was a lot of fun of course and a nice warm day (even for the locals!). I have of course had the privilege of falling asleep next to my son around 8PM and not have to get out of bed until the morning :-) A rare treat indeed!!! 

 

Over the past year I have of course have many moments of fun, laughter and the meeting of many great people (between the exhaustion ;-) 

 

 

I believe that despite the many challenges put forward in life, one needs to always find something to smile about and laugh about, these things are the gifts we can give ourselves :-)

It has been wonderful to watch the Cheeky Boy laughing, getting up to mischief and discovering things in his world that he hasn't noticed before. He is of course still going through random drop seizures throughout the day and continuous bouts of them when he wakes up from a nap but to watch him get into fits of laughter of the Bananas In Pyjamas falling over is a joy indeed :-) (never mind his fits of laughter when he burps from either end of his body!!! )

We have been informed that he will be starting his Ketogenic diet at the end of the month so we will be spending a week in hospital in Sydney so that he can be monitored closely. The aim of the diet is to reduce or perhaps eventually eliminate his seizures. We will have to see how he goes, it will require measuring every amount of food going into his mouth and making high protein, high (good)fat foods and eliminating carbohydrates from his diet (goodbye garlic bread...)

If you would like to have a look at how the Ketogenic diet can assist people with epilepsy please click on the following link: www.matthewsfriends.org

Well it's time to go and indulge in a little chocolate ice cream  :-) I hope you all have a lovely week :-)