I Have A Love Hate Relationship With Nasonex

I love it because it helps me breathe. I can actually breathe out of my nose now.

I hate it because I have an odd taste in my mouth from it all day long. Plus I can't smell. Even though I can breathe it totally takes away my ability to smell.

Lately I've Been Struggling to Breathe

I've been struggling to breathe. My oldest son has been struggling to breathe. It's allergies at it's worst. It's entered our chest cavity. Both of us have a cough. We sound like two smokers during some of the day.

Both of us have been doing the Neti Pot twice a day. We've been taking over the counter allergy medicine. Then we've been taking all natural Maty's Cough Syrup.

Source

I won the cough syrup a while back and it's the one thing kids can take. Most cough syrups are for adults only and contain alcohol.

I've been washing our pillow cases with every load of laundry I do.

As of right now we're both feeling blah! I seriously have had a problem getting one post out. I just feel like doing absolutely nothing.

Mica, my son is in 1st grade. He's opted to take a nap the last two days. In return he gets to stay up a little bit longer than usual.

It wasn't a total waste of the day. My oldest son has a bake sale at school coming up and my youngest starts preschool this week. I did my motherly duty and made treats. Then my oldest saw a recipe for pumpkin pudding in his Highlights magazine. I managed to make that with him as well. It's a bread pudding. It is more healthy than most puddings. I took a picture, but I have to say that bread type puddings are not that pretty.

Do You Purify Your Home?

I have always wondered if purifiers really work? The good ones are so expensive. Then of course you have to pay extra for filters to.

Since I have allergies pretty bad I've been wanting to try one. Does anyone know, do they actually do their job?

Feisty Frugal and Fabulous is giving away a Honeywell True Hepa Air Purifier.

Aller-Ease

One thing I don't mess around with is bedding! I have really bad allergies. Here are a few tips of things you can do to help protect your bedding:

• Wash your pillow case with every load of laundry. 
• Sprinkle baking soda on your mattress and vacuum it.
• Wash your hair before you go to bed to help with outdoor allergies.
• Get new bedding every so often.
• Get allergy protectors for your mattress and pillows.

 What to win 4 Aller-Ease allergy safe pillows? Go to Go Graham Go! to enter.

Allergies!

I have allergies so bad that they are off the charts! I've had those back pricks done many times when I was younger. I would puff up so bad that the nurse felt bad for me.

I'm super allergic to environmental things, dust mites and any animal that is furry. It used to be that I would get itchy eyes and wheeze with asthma when I was around cats or dogs. Now I mostly get bitchy and tired! It's worse then PMS.

Some things that I do are:

• Sprinkle Baking Soda on our mattresses and vacuum it up.
• Wash my rugs and drapes on a regular basis.
• Vacuum under the couch cushions.
• Dust.
• Wash my hair before bed.
• Clean my pillow case with every load of laundry I do.

I'd really like to get a steam mop for my wood floors. We also plan on getting some industrial carpet for downstairs.

For carpet I'd love to have one of these:

Two of a Kind Working on a Full House is hosting a giveaway for a Hoover MaxExtract 60 Pressure Pro Carpet Cleaner!