Ain't No Peanut

Don't ask me why I titled this post this way.  I said it in my head and it stuck that way.  However, this post is about peanuts and the fact that we have to avoid them.

When my little Goosie was a year old, we discovered that she has a peanut allergy.  She found a peanut butter lid and apparently enjoyed the tasty treat.  However, this is when we discovered that she had an allergy to it.  Red eyes, swollen face, hives.....it was not exciting.

A couple years later and allergy testing shows that she is still allergic to peanuts.  And, to make things even more interesting, our 16 week old baby boy also has the allergy.  Yeah.  We know this because I held him while eating a peanut butter cookie and he had an allergic reaction.  Swollen face, swollen eyes, hives, breakout eczema, whelps....it was not exciting.

We now carry epipens everywhere we go.

Now. Living with a peanut allergy proves everyday to be harder than once imagined.  Cross contamination is everywhere.  EVERYWHERE! 

Tonight after leaving church we stopped by a local ice cream shop.  It was busy on this wonderful Sunday evening and we waited in line.  The longer we waited, the more nervous I became.  What about the scoops that are being used to scoop the icecream?  What about the peanuts that are being used for sundaes?  Are hands being washed?  The frozen stone in which they make smashed icecream was not being cleaned, only wiped.  It is not the responsibility of the ice cream shop to make sure that my daughter is safe, it is mine and my husband's. 

Needless to say, but my little Goosie only had soft serve. 

The one thing that I hold true and fast is that God is the one who holds my little daughter in His hands.  And they are not covered in peanut dust.