Posts by peaceful_mama

I got sick of my kids putting tons of dip on their plates and leaving it, so I started being pretty strict on when I replace the bottles of sweet and sour and ketchup.  Going a couple meals without their favorite has helped them...

Hubby likes to grocery-shop a couple times a month and buys mega-tons of crap.  Thinks the kids "need" chips and stuff.  I now have a hiding place for say, 4 bags of chips when he does like last time and buys 6.  When...

saving random electronic cords that can be used.  Like when part of our cord for our laptop got wrecked from a chair rocking on it or rolling over it...the adapter part was just fine.  So it went into a box of random cords we...

finding ways to use what we already have and make it last--for example, we still have old TV's.  I also have a DVD player that was just sitting in a closet.  When the DVD/VCR combo in the kids' room broke AGAIN...both sides...

Kids get overwhelmed by too much to clean up.  I try to stick to fewer items and more thoughtful toy purchases--what they truly love, or something that solves a problem for me, like toy dishes to go with the playdough so they quit...

I *rarely* buy children's clothing or toys brand-new.  They don't care.  

Put a price limit on b-day party gifts.  I've put a limit on my 7 yr old of 10 bucks including wrapping or a bag if I need to do that.  

The ends of the loaf of bread that nobody at my house will eat get frozen.  Nobody seems to notice that I use them to make French toast and bread pudding for breakfast.

Well, we are *mostly* done.  There's still the issue of his original birth defect, the imperforate anus, and the colostomy, which must be repaired and taken down, in 2 separate surgeries a few months apart.  We shall see what...

We're day 4 I think this is?  He is on a feeding tube 15 hours a day.  Tonight, for the first time, when I hooked him up before bed, he seemed PO'ed to be 'attached' and actually picked up the end of the tube and tried to...