Wounded

Something is wrong with Tesla, and we don't know what. Of course, she can't tell us. That would be too easy.

So we're left trying to decipher the second-hand code of her body language, the time of day, possible event triggers, food source irritants...as well as the probable influence of weather patterns, star configurations, saints' days...whatever might help us sniff out the problem. It's terribly tricky. Really.

In fact, Randy's designing a whole compiler at work to help us deduce our daughter's mental/physical state of health. When he gets it going, we're gonna make a mint off the autism community! Ha.

Until that magical day when Tesla can tell us what hurts (or Randy's compiler works), we can do nothing but sit by and let her rage like a wounded animal until she calms down long enough to let us comfort her.

My gut says it's the yeast thing again. We've been treating it all summer with pau d'arco, but what we need is a serious prescription anti-fungal, something our current ped PCP probably won't give us. In fact, I know we need a different doctor. But who?

Then there's the VBS we signed her up for this week. And you know what that means: sugary treats! (Oh lord, is this all we know to feed our kids with??)

So today they passed out cupcakes. Then another teacher remembered Tesla usually brings her own snacks. So they took the cupcake away... And Tesla did what any sane child would do if her cupcake were snatched from her: she freaked.

Now I've got another dilemma: do I let her stay in VBS, eat the sugary snacks with the rest of the kids? or do we only stay as long as my registration duties require me to be there--and then leave to go home and drive one another nuts all day??

Poor kid. Poor mom. Poor everybody.

So I think I'll rework my gluten-free cupcake recipes and see what I can come up with for our frazzled family.

It's not gonna be these. But they're pretty to look at, aren't they? They're from a Singapore baker, so you know they're teeny-tiny Hello Kitty bite-sized minatures! Ooooooooooo!

If you're a cupcake freak (and as far as food fetishes go, I guess it's not so bad...), you might want to check out this site for inspiration, or tantalization! Warning: very enabling.