Allergy Wars

I recently saw a comment on a parenting forum where someone suggested that children with food allergies be required to go to a “special” school to do away with the difficulty of things like nut free classrooms.  This immediately got my hackles up, but then I thought, “I bet they have no clue what parenting an allergic child is really like.” Since I happen to be a writer with my own forum AND a parent of not one, but TWO allergic children, I opted to take up the mantle of illumination.
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M is for Monster

As I’m sure you are all well aware, subscription boxes are a booming market right now.  It seems like there’s a box for everything these days…maybe even 3 or 5 boxes.  One box I’ve tried, however, that stands out from the rest is the Monster Box, which has, on more than one occasion, been a sanity saver for this tired mama.

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