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Judah's Allergies & Tears in Foods for Living

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We've been trying to get the bottom of Judah's skin issues for a long while now.  We've seen his pediatrician, a dermatologist, and an allergist several times over the last year JUST to talk about Judah's skin (that's a lot of $30 co-pays).  We've always been told he has baby eczema and that it will pass.  When he was a very little baby, that answer was fine for me because he would go through ebbs and flows with it; sometimes his skin would be totally clear and then he'd have a flair up for a couple of weeks. The winters were worse because it was drier out and in the summer, his skin was usually completely clear.  But for the last year, he's had bad skin the entire time, no ebb and flow. So I started to get more frustrated and asking questions.  He got his allergies tested a year ago, I probably told you, and they tested for all the regular most common allergies and he came back totally clear, but his skin still wasn't.  So after several appointment

9 Year Anniversary Trip: TORONTO!!!

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First of all, if you haven't been to Toronto yet- GO! GO NOW!  Stop reading this and get in your car :) Before I gush  about the awesome 43ish hours we had in one of our favorite cities, Toronto, I have to go back to the early summer of 2015, over a year ago. Carter was only a month or two old and we were adjusting to life as a family of five, which included three kids under two. Josh let me know that summer that he wanted to take a trip for our nine year anniversary, just the two of us, and that he thought we should go to Toronto. I answered, "mmmhmmm okay." yeah right.  I thought. We have three kids!  Next year Nolan and Judah will likely be in preschool!  We both work!  Carter won't even be 18 months old yet!  That's so far away! I essentially put the idea out of my mind.  I may have even laughed at him when he brought it up. Fast forward to about 15 months later... Somehow we pulled off squaring away child care (GOD BLESS MINE AND JOSH&#