Easter Eggs

The balance between fear and freedom is delicate in the reference of food allergies.  As caretakers of those with food allergies, fear serves a purpose.   Fear can protect and prevent.   We experience fear in the presence of food allergens in classrooms, buses, and fieldtrips.  We experience it when we read confusing food labels.  We use fear to help others understand the serious subject matter of life threatening reactions.  But fear does something else…

Fear can also prevent us from enjoying simple pleasures.  Fear that is not rational is not purposeful. 

Two of my children are allergic to eggs and to any type of ingestion of eggs in foods like cakes, cookies, and candies.  They had a fear of eggs.  The sight of an egg caused anxiety.  Their fear was a result of my fear.

I never dyed eggs with my kids for fear of the egg.  A few Easter seasons ago, I just decided that my fear of an egg was irrational.  An egg is in a safe enclosure called a shell and that shell offers protection from the part to which they have an allergy.

So we dyed eggs…

We had fun…

We did not eat the eggs…(we had jelly beans instead)

Oh well.

Go ahead...enjoy some freedom!

Happy Easter