The last few days have been incredibly crazy busy making it hard to stick to a Paleo plan.  Definitely much harder to have my children sticking to it.  Thursday simply due to a lack of planning they had to eat some "chicken" nuggets that I had in the freezer that I bought at Costco a while back.   It was so crazy how I noticed a difference in their behavior and attitude within a 1/2 hour after eating them.  In fact they were so wired I could hardly get them to calm down and go to bed that night.  I vowed never to do that again because I cherish the time I get to myself after the kids go to bed and to spend another hour to hour and a half fighting with them to go to bed isn't what I want to do at night.  But alas life seemed to have taken over and here it is Saturday and I have managed to feed my kids at least 1 paleo unfriendly since then. 

In the last 2 weeks I have noticed such positive changes in my kids.  I decided to start feeding my family a Paleo diet because it made sense.  I kept coming back to the questions of "if I and finding this healthy enough and reaping such positive benefits WHY an I not including my family in this?"  My 4 1/2 year old is such and enjoyable but very trying little boy.  I love him more than life itself but his behavior has been the forefront of issues within the family.  He is/was a 4 1/2 acting like a 2 year old, his lack of impulse control has been such an issue with him.  Granted he has a 2 year old sister that we could attribute his behavior to and maybe some regression but I wasn't buying it.  My gut was telling me there was something more going on.  All these thoughts go through your mind, does he have ADHD?  Autism Spectrum Disorder?  Seriously I was thinking about this everyday and it isn't something that a mother wants to think about.  Ever.  After some research, Listening to Robb Wolf podcast like a freakin' stalker I kept coming back to the question Was gluten and/or grains contributing, increasing or causing these problems?   My husband went back and forth on this issue, at the time he wasn't eating Paleo and I don't think he had any desire to despite seeing all the positive changes in me.  Our deciding factor came after a phone call from our sons kindergarten teacher, he kicked a kid in the head on the playground.  We could no longer attribute his lack of impulse control to "kid" behavior.  I was afraid that going to the pediatrician about this again would result in the usual "American Way" and put him on medications; which in my mind that is the very last thing I want to do.   Paleo was so kind to welcome my kids into its' lifestyle. ☻
I noticed differences in my kids within a couple of days, the biggest change initially was a huge increase in their appetite.  We are seriously going to go broke just trying to feed my 6 year old.  Breakfast alone for him the other morning was 2 paleo pancakes, 2 eggs, and 3 pieces of bacon.  He was still asking for more food but we were out of time and had to leave for school.  My younger son has had a great 2 weeks at school, no behavior issues to speak of.  He seems to be more focused on his school work  and he has just been such a pleasure to be around.  My kids are 2 full meals Paleo and I'm working on the 3rd.  Lunch seems to be the biggest challenge but we keep trying.

So if I had just 1 or 2 more hours in a day I truly believe that I can be super mom.  But alas there isn't so I will have to keep trying and not give up on this.  I vow to be more organized and start planning ahead a little better.