Back to Work

Well, it's back to work tomorrow and I'm not sure I'm quite ready for it. Oh, the laundry is done and I have clothes picked out to wear for the week, but still I've been off for two weeks and I didn't even have to attend my online college. So it's been nice having to do absolutely nothing but veg and watch Carli grow. Oh well, its time and I must so I will.

New way of eating for a six year old

So, we decided to let Carli have her own drawer of food in the refrigerator. Dad went out yesterday to the 99cent store and bought a few containers in which to hold all her healthy, nutritious goodies he'd purchased. Carli can now 'shop' in this drawer and eat whatever she wants, whenever she wants. Things in this 'grocery store' include: pickles, tortilla chips (in a snack bag), 2 cookies, fruit cocktail in light sauce, pears, mini hotdogs, chili, macaroni and cheese, orange and apple slices, a few pieces of turkey deli meat, and other miscellaneous items.

This has turned out to be the greatest idea yet to inspire independence when it comes to eating. No longer do I hear "Mom, I'm hungry!" and then having to settle in for a long battle over what to have for breakfast, lunch or dinner.

Carli can now take charge of what she eats and since I already taught her 'everything in moderation' she knows that even if she has a whole can of chili, she doesn't have to eat the entire bowlful.

She can take a bagful of chips and some baby carrots, along with some low-fat ranch dressing spiced up with some taco seasoning and eat however much she desires.

For those of you who are having issues, I think this is a great way to get your child to eat healthy snacks throughout the day, week, month, heck all year long!

Happy New Year!

I just sent Carli outside to catch some bugs in a glass jar with holes in the lid. We'll see what she comes back with.

So...blogger may just be my new best friend

Ok, so I know I already did a blog on this...but it ended up being a whole new blog post. Anyway I went back into myspace, was in there for just a second, jumped out and guess what? No multiple windows of myspace. Wow, was I happy about that. Anyway...I still need to find a more adult way of communicating with family and friends and I'm not quite sure how to do that, just yet. Give me time and I'll figure out something respectable.

Oh yeah, I failed to tell you...

One more thing I forgot to mention - I'm going to be a grandmother again, and I hope the grandkids know I prefer to be called Mama D, not grammy, granny or grandma...ick...those are such old names. While some of you may prefer grandma, that's all well and good, but not for this 21st century woman. Anyway, my middle daughter is about four months pregnant with her third child and my daughter in law is two months pregnant with her first. They found out yesterday that there is only one in there (she is a good candidate for twins as they run strong in her family). Christmas is less than a week away, there is no tree up (yet) and there are no gifts under the tree...oh wait, that's cuz the tree isn't up yet, duh! I am officially off for two weeks from work and from school (online college, that is) and I am looking forward to spending time sleeping in and not doing much of anything.

Life Changes

****UPDATE****

We are probably going to move after all. Probably in May '09 at the earliest. This is because we are finally ready to and things are changing enough that we can. Just needed to blog.


So...we didn't move after all. Things settled down (thank goodness). My in-laws are handling things on their own and we are in no rush to move up to Oregon where it is too cold and snowy for us.

Life in general

While it doesn't seem like things always go the way you want them to, I have always believed that things happen for a reason. We're supposed to be moving to Oregon in the next month or so, perhaps sooner. It is not a definate thing because the funds are not there. Who knows what tomorrow will bring. It's a wait and see kind of thing and I hate not knowing.