Couch 91 - Forget the small change

Quinoa isn't botanically a grain so from what I understand it's okay. It appears to be a grain which is probably a deal-breaker for some people.

A growing trend among non-Orthodox is to just skip the basic 5 grains and not stuff like rice and beans. I started doing that.

One year I stupidly decided Passover is a good time to become vegan, when I was still following the stricter rules. Just not. I broke it with a piece of cheese pizza after 3 days. My sister said I should've gone all the way and made it pepperoni.

No wait, i got it! Sorry it took me so long! I must be getting old...

Oh yes i can and oh yes i would.

Another one he is so cute.

Awwwwwwwww! Teh Cute!

The pups snoring sounds like a pig tonight. It was a rough weekend. Slowly easing my way back onto the couch.

Up every hour... Second night in a row... Last night also included 2.5 hours of not being able to put baby down. Bleh. I hope she sleeps after this. I can't keep doing this night after night.

I look at all these family's easter pic on FB and am so envious . my farther lives right next door and didn't even come over to say happy easter. it isn't that I would want him to at this point but I am so envious of those that have family that even acknowledge that they exist. my easter was spent cleaning and stressing out about my son and being angry at my husband because he thinks im crazy out of control. I have friends that have invited out ,I had my son and husband here and I was still crazy unhappy .

I know everything I post is negative these days. I just need a place to spew it all out and smile at my husband

I am getting so nervous... in two hours I will be at my mom's house telling her about CSA. I don't have any reason to believe she will react in a negative way, but I am still very super nervous about it!

The seven year old is still angry at me for not celebrating Easter. Ugh. I shouldn't be so upset by an upset child... I suppose I can at least take some comfort in the fact that she feels she can be angry at me. I was my mother's support system and confidant at her age...

Maybe the Easter Bunny just got lost getting to your house? She cant go back to school and say she did nothing for easter. Isnt all week easter week, technically? I love technicalities. They would have been eating hard boiled eggs all week, technically i am still mad at my family for my birthday "surprises" - they enjoyed them, i did not. Doing it later would let her know you listen and respond to her. My family did neither.

Around here - all the candy and stuff is on sale - would a bag of hershey's pastel colored chocolate eggs appease her?

The most my kids got for Easter was chocolate eggs that I hid the morning of and a trip to church.

I've screwed up plenty of times. Sometimes I offer a couple of options to make it better. Like, "Would it help if I hid some chocolate eggs and we had a late hunt?" or "What if we go pick out some Easter candy and eat a ton of if for dinner?"

Idk. Sometimes if you can do something weird-special, kids get happy again.

It's Monday. Definitely, definitely Monday. I came off my horse yesterday while turning around to check on my D, who had just come off her horse, so I'm all sore. H used my computer last night, so my space bar is sticking again and I have to slam down on it to get it to work. I got upset and asked him if he just sat at the computer all night eating sticky ****, and he said, "does chocolate count?" Contemplating licking my keyboard to (1) see if it really is chocolate (2) fix the keyboard by getting rid of sticky stuff, and (3) get a chocolate fix.

Granite, feel free to vent. You can PM also, if you want.

Good luck, Healed.

*sits on couch with blankets*

Kids like tradition. They like the idea that some times are special, celebratory times. It doesn't have to be religious to become tradition. After all, a great deal of the hype around Christmas and Easter has pretty much nothing to do with religion. Traditions give kids that sense of constancy and family; those traditions give them those stories and memories that they can tie to certain times of year. You don't have to have the same traditions you grew up with if those don't work for you. Create your own. Better yet, have your kids help you create them.

Sometimes I'm jealous that my toddler can throw a tantrum but a grown woman isn't supposed to.

I want to fall on the floor and scream sometimes :-/ Usually when my 20 month old decides he wants to do this.

im all about throwing myself on the floor kicking and screaming at this point

lol chocolate definitely counts and if he was going to get your space bar all sticky when using your computer he best share the chocolate lol

i've had too much chocolate

I did some of this last night....

I know eh... When toddler throws a fit I wish I could join her.

Hello couch, sorry I've been hiding under the cushions lately, makes the couch quite lumpy doesn't it?

We didn't "do" Easter traditions this year either, but did spend the entire weekend together creating new traditions. (My little one has poor dental health and eats entirely too much junk food, so I skipped the basket/candy this year. She didn't notice until someone asked her what the Bunny brought her. Meh.) We got some much needed Vitamin D and exercise at the park, and went to places SHE wanted to go, listened to music SHE wanted to listen to in the car, basically she got to be in charge for the day. It wasn't too horrible, although it has the potential to turn that way very quickly.

She has control over very little so this was a compromise on my part, hoping that she'll let me have some of my control back if I give her more of her own!

can you imagine the look on her face if you threw yourself own on the floor and joined her lol .I bet it would stop her in her track

I did that a couple of times with my son. It did stop him. I also started following him around a grocery store once, asking him to buy me random things and whining loudly when he said he wouldn't. He laughed a lot.