Sitting with a cup of coffee. (coffee lovers)

[tjo804]

Laughing all the way! It's been fun catching up on you coffee critters

Up date on the neighbors murder dogs, One was fatally hit by a car today.(It was NOT my car

) The man who hit her was very upset and didnt know how to find the owners. I wrapped her gently in a towel and brought her home for him. They were sad and I kinda know that sad since that was the dog that killed 6 of my hens last spring by pulling their heads off. I am not sorry she is gone. Another neighbor has adopted the other one and they have a fence! So today I let the ladies run and play outside of the run they ate grass seeds and bugs. had a great and sometimes frisky time of it and I cant wait to do it again tomorrow!

Just Maybe this year is turning around after all.

New Grandson came Easter Sunday

. He was 4 weeks early and weighed 4lbs 8 oz. He got to go home at 4 days. And now the Ladies get some yard time once again

 

[Alaskan]

Laughing all the way! It's been fun catching up on you coffee critters

Up date on the neighbors murder dogs, One was fatally hit by a car today.(It was NOT my car ) The man who hit her was very upset and didnt know how to find the owners. I wrapped her gently in a towel and brought her home for him. They were sad and I kinda know that sad since that was the dog that killed 6 of my hens last spring by pulling their heads off. I am not sorry she is gone. Another neighbor has adopted the other one and they have a fence! So today I let the ladies run and play outside of the run they ate grass seeds and bugs. had a great and sometimes frisky time of it and I cant wait to do it again tomorrow!   

Just Maybe this year is turning around after all. New Grandson came Easter Sunday . He was 4 weeks early and weighed 4lbs 8 oz. He got to go home at 4 days.  And now the Ladies get some yard time once again

Dang! Hiw did he get to go home so soon? Excellent baby!

 

[tjo804]

passed all glucose testing and the car seat test. boom they let him go. His sister was early as well and she spent a month in the hospital before she could go. Gotta love strong little boys

 

[Bunnylady]

Congrats on the new grandson! Sounds like a "look out world, here I come" kid!

Sorry to hear about the dog - sorry for the dog, for the guy who hit her, for all the needless grief surrounding her, but for your sake, not sorry that she's gone. Maybe her irresponsible owners have finally learned a painful lesson - or is that too much to hope for?

 

[sourland]

tjo, great news on the grandson - great news on the dog. Not trying to be mean about the dog - just realistic.

 

[duluthralphie]

tjo, great news on the grandson - great news on the dog. Not trying to be mean about the dog - just realistic.

X2...


You do not know how much it pains me to have to agree with you so often!!! ( I am just a disagreeable old cuss)......

 

[duluthralphie]

I had Grandpa Daycare duties yesterday.. I love doing it, but I think my DIL is setting me up for grandchild hate.....

The other day when I watched them, She told me there was some goulash in the fridge for supper. I heated it up and feed the kids. The 4 year old made a huge scene saying she hated goulash. She hate the other things but just ignored the goulash, I personally dislike goulash myself. When I was a kid it was my Mothers favorite food so we had it 6 nights and 4 lunches a week. YUCK!!!!.

I still figured I had to do my duty and had her eat part of it. (not much really) Just enough to make me look good..... When my DIL got home she said, "She likes goulash, she ate a lot of it last night"....


I said " you mean you had me feeding her left overs and maybe it was just having it twice in a row she did not like?" She said " Oh, I guess so, I never thought of that."

Just so you know my DIL is very organized and a good cook. She has a chalk board in the kitchen and plans the meals a week in advance and write on the board what each day is.

Yesterday, before me DIL and DS left they said there is vegetable beef soup in the fridge for supper. I heated the soup, it was a very thick soup more a stew than soup. There was a few carrots in it and beef but it was mainly potatoes and onions. I thought " gee this does not look like it has a lot of beef or veggies in it".


At supper time my GD refused to eat the soup. She hate the cheese and crackers but would not eat the soup, I noticed she ate the carrots but there were only a couple (seriously only 2) in her little and I mean little bowl... Again I made her eat a couple potatoes before she watched TV (tinkerbell).....

She is only 4, she grabbed the remote and said "NO, I do not like soup." Beings I wanted to be the good grandpa I want to just let her go watch TV....


But knowing my DIL thinks I am a push over for the kids, I held my ground and took the remote back and said " no, you have to eat first, just have three of those potatoes.... Crying ensued. I turned the TV off.. My grand Daughter screamed NO!! you would have thought I had beaten her. I told her Don't worry we will turn it back on when you eat the potatoes. All there was left in her bowl were potatoes.

She ate them after 20 minutes of misery on both our parts...

When the kids came home they asked how it went. I told them it went fine except for the soup. My DIL says. that's weird she is such a good eater.

I told her "she said she did not like soup."

My DIL said " what? she loves soup, she ate a lot of it last night?"


I said " what? Are you forcing me to feed her left overs again?"

She pointed at the board and said " see tonight is left over night?".

Then she asked "so how bad was it?" referring to how much of a scene did the GD make.

I downplayed it, and said "not too bad, I just made her eat a few potatoes"

She looked at me and said "Potatoes?"

Me: " yea, that's about all there was in the soup, she ate the carrot without complaining"...

My DIL says " oh Yeah, She hates potatoes"......

I asked her if she was trying to poison me to my grandkids..She laughed and said "Sorry, I guess it was mainly picked through"...

Maybe you had to be there, but we all thought it was kind of funny,,well all except the poor Granddaughter that was forced to eat potatoes....



Just so you know it turned out ok as my GD and I got a good half hour of snuggle time on the couch l after the GS was in bed! So she still loved me.

 

[3goodeggs]

Wow,
Maybe there needs to be a list of what she eats what she doesn't- what is leftover what isn't, what cam be substituted and what can not be.

I hated mustard greens. they still make me retch, and my father made me eat them. It got to the point where I would eat them first so if I threw up I still had the rest of my dinner to eat and I would not go to bed hungry.
My grandfather could not eat potatoes... there are food sensitivities that we chalk up to stubbornness they are more than just dislike but nausea and cramps.
Kids are not believed too often.


And some things just are too strong of a taste for a kid.
I hated raw onions and believed that when I was grown up I would like them.
No. That never happened. but they are also on my food allergen pannel. so, ?
I do not suggest that she get candy and pudding for dinner, but if she has had enough nutrition to get her through the night, pick your battles, A few potatoes are not worth it.

 

[sourland]

Hey, Ralphie, just spoil the heck out of them - let the parents deal with the realities of life. That's been my method.

Oldest grandson once said to the Princess, "Emmy (what they call her) Pa is really weird." Being the concerned grandmother she asked, "You mean scary weird?" His reply, "No, neat weird. None of my friends have a grandfather like him."

He gets it.

 

[duluthralphie]

Hey, Ralphie, just spoil the heck out of them - let the parents deal with the realities of life. That's been my method.

Oldest grandson once said to the Princess, "Emmy (what they call her) Pa is really weird." Being the concerned grandmother she asked, "You mean scary weird?" His reply, "No, neat weird. None of my friends have a grandfather like him."

He gets it.

LOL I know, I have a tendency to be that way too,,, I was trying to get my "creds" back with the parents. They know I spoil them....


3goodeggs, it was not that big of a deal simply miscommunication. My DIL is a great mother. Her Father just passed a month ago and they had meetings to try and resolve a tom of estate issues. She is still in mourning, I do not blame her at all for anything.

Our kids kind of have our values, we are not going to force a kid to eat something they do not like, but they are not going to get by just saying they do not like something with giving it a fair test. It was a pure miscommunication, partly mine not understanding my GD did not like potatoes and it was not the soup itself, and of course my not knowing it was left over night. I fully support a left over night! Why waste food?