The Stats.

I am 29 years old with 3 kids. Jake, 9, Liam, 6, and Avery ,3. The interesting thing about this little group is I cannot imagine my life without each of them. They bring to my life such immense contentment and a love I have yet to find again. Each time they lifted the slimy, gooey baby onto my belly I fell in love. Hopelessly and spell blindingly in love. I would lift this tiny creature, who had resided inside of my very body, to my face and gaze at the wonder of their perfection. They had all of their toes and fingers and they had little lungs and little parts. I couldn't help it, they were mine and at my young ages of 20,22 and 26 I still remember thinking that this was a love like none other. I am first and foremost my kid's Mom and I fight I knew, even then, I would fight like hell if someone tried to harm them.

Years later I recalled the scene in the hospital room as I sat on the floor of parking garage and listened to my 2 year old son scream inside the car. I had just received Liam's diagnosis of moderate to severe Autism and I didn't have the strength to fight him into his car seat. I had left the clinic and made my way back to the car, tears streaming down my face . I put him inside and closed the door and sunk to the ground and sobbed. Autism is a life sentence, it is incurable and untreatable, this is what I was told, you can do your best to help him cope with it but it is unknown how well he will do, if he has any success at all. I drove home and told Liam's father, then my husband, and we cried together. This was the beginning of the end of our marriage and although I didn't know it yet it was the beginning of the end of me.

8 years later at a parent-teacher conference for my oldest son Jake, the teacher asked how I would feel about medicating my son. I looked up quickly, unable to fully process the question. " I think he may have ADHD and it is affecting his school work, he will not pass this grade if this continues." The discussion continued around me, I said I would look into it and left. The whole drive home I was confused. How could I have done this so wrong! How could I have 2 out of 3 kids with issues! How was this fair! I went home and googled ADHD. Thousands of hits. I tried all of the natural web sites, everything pointed to diet. I stared off into space and googled Autism diet. They were almost the same thing! This began a new phase of an 8 year journey. A journey to heal my kids and have them live their best life! Without the intervention of drugs! I immediately stared them both on the diet. Gluten-free, casein-free, dairy-free diet with immediate results! I began to blog the days out on my blog but it wasn't enough, I wanted to log each and every success, each and every thing that worked for our family and each and every mistake. The one thing that these kid's do not have on their side is time, you have to intervene now! So continues our journey...