Sitting with a cup of coffee. (coffee lovers)

[3goodeggs]

Grandpa would shout out fun words like riboflavin or onamonapia, or say our names backwards.
My cousins had brought a friend to my grandparent's home and she told us that our grandfather was weird, (He was unique and a joy) and the three of us turned and screamed ''NO HE ISN"T!" at her.

The girl got over her superiority pretty quickly. and never returned. her loss.

 

[sourland]

'Leftover night' - like many here I grew up poor. Didn't matter because everyone I knew was in the same situation. Mom's favorite saying (among many) was "waste not, want not.". I have two older sisters - one an angel here on earth - the other the exact opposite. One night we sat down for supper and Mom placed the leftovers on the table. Sister from Hades said, "What is that s**t?" My father (who NEVER hit us) stood up, started removing his belt and said, "What did you just say, young lady." She flipped him the bird, said blank you old man and ran out the door. I knew he was going to kill her. He made a mistake and allowed her to live.

 

[chickisoup]

HEY!!!! SPOILER ALERT!!!

Some of us grandmas can be pretty weird too and totally proud of it!!!

(tho I do believe my daughter is not so thrilled

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[sourland]

HEY!!!! SPOILER ALERT!!!

Some of us grandmas can be pretty weird too and totally proud of it!!!

(tho I do believe my daughter is not so thrilled

)

Congratulations - my kids know the ground rules. My SIL doesn't get it. One Easter at their house *we had gotten the 5 grandkids Super Soakers - the kids and I engaged in a house wide/yard wide water fight involving buckets of water on my part. I heard my SIL ask my daughter, "Can't you get him to stop?" Her reply, "It's normal behavior for my Dad. He loves water fights. You should have grown up in our house."

Doesn't everyone run through the house squirting the hose?

 

[perchie.girl]

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Bwahahahahah...... love it.

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

I always told my son taste it. If you dont like it you dont have to eat it.

One time I was sitting on the couch watching tv and eating Sourdough bread smeared with cream cheese and Lumpfish caviar.... My son who was four at the time. "Whats that mommy?" I told him and asked him if he wanted some.

I made him a small square of it.... and handed it to him.... He took one bite and said.... "Good Beans mom..." and devoured it.

I eat alot of different and unusual things so there was no real routine in my house. I think curiosity drew him in most times.... I always had Mac and Cheese on hand in case there was a disaster. But all in all he tasted everything with little complaint but only after he had tasted it. There was no melt down refusing to eat something that looked different.

Funny thing.... hes a very picky eater NOW that hes 26... He dislikes ham and pork with the exception of bacon. He wont eat breakfast sausage but he loves Italian sausage in spaghetti.... Hes not a fan of chicken or turkey either...... Or pinto beans.... BUT when they are served he will eat a small plate of it, then later he will graze to finish off.

deb

 

[Alaskan]

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.

I think you handled everything perfectly.

Seriously... That is how quality kids are made.

 

[sourland]

I think you handled everything perfectly.

Seriously... That is how quality kids are made.

I believe that is how quality kids are raised. Making them is another story.

 

[Alaskan]

 

[sourland]

C'mon now, 'Al', I expected better than that.