My little brother; a future artist?

I find myself often looking at the beauties hanging on our "Art wall." Yes, a wall filled with amateur school projects mostly containing glued on macaroni, beans, cotton balls, and yes, messy messy markers welcomes guests as they walk farther into my house. . These have a lot of very sentimental value to them, but they are very messy. As I walked into my room the other day I found a new addition to the art wall, except on my wall. As a fun loving brother, he can be quite mischievous. I find his loving heart and exceptional agility fun, but it can also disappear as fast at lighting can scare a child. A few harsh words, and he is your worst enemy. I took peer tutor as an elective in class, and have really been able to be even more aware of how to treat these angels. I have learned lots of things, but it has really shown me that these kids already have enough struggles, they don't need any more from us. I have tried to make a difference, even starting with my brother who is barely mentally delayed. He shows me that I really do have to try hard to help him, agitation can not be a factor in helping his young spirit achieve great things.

Anyways, back to him drawing on my wall, I have really tried to not get mad at little things that won't really mean much, even though they seem like big things at the time. I guess that little drawing will always be a reminder that little things don't matter, it's the relationship we might harm if we take it to hard.

Be thankful you are not lactose intolerant.

I frown as shake my head no to ice cream. As much as I love it, it makes me so sick. I've had a stomach issue for a long time. Every morning I would just sit there as my stomach hissed, and gurgled. I felt sick. I would take Advil, but most of the time that wouldn't even work. I wondered if it was from anxiety that I was feeling so ill, or if I had an ulcer, but I didn't know for sure.

A couple of times I had been taken off of milk, but I could never commit to a soybean based lifestyle. I soon had enough, and my parents made sure to monitor that I wasn't drinking milk, or eating lots of dairy. We bought soy milk, lactaid, and other gross 'Milk' that never seemed to get cold enough. I went a couple weeks without it, and noticed that there was a big difference. I had no stomach aches. I decided to now try a bit of cheese, and found that mozzarella doesn't make my stomach hurt as bad, but oh how wonderful to know how to stop my stomach aches. If only I had known a long time ago! I still have to have self control when it comes to ice cream, I can choose ice cream and unhappy stomach, or an alternative and no stomach aches. I usually try to stay away from ice cream and milk products, but I miss my yogurt.

It stinks to be lactose intolerant. Be lucky you aren't. Even though I still sometimes be a rebel and drink some milk and eat some cheese, because hey! Replacement milk just is not the same.

Haha. Yeah.

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