Random Thoughts IX (The first 8 were probably better)

[Cybirdy]

You gotta just do you when parenting. When my kids were toddlers, I didn't give them juice. It was milk or water. Now that kids are older, it is the 13yr old who drinks apple juice. The 3yr old also loves orange juice, so she gets some occasionally. We also don't do a lot of pop. I think the youngest 2 had it for the first time this summer at the 4th of July. The older 2 will drink it if we are having pizza or a movie night or if they are at the movies. I don't drink any, and hubby may have 1 or so a week.

My MIL is the worst when it comes to drinks. When we visit she will ask if we need anything special--nope. We get there and she will have Kool Aid coolers (in the plastic bottles with the twist off top) or those juice barrels or other crap for the kids to drink.

 

[jcyclonee]

I'm not getting any love in my service provider thread. Does anyone have any recommendations for a good service provider in the NW Iowa area? My mom's phone crapped out and they just found out that their service provider is discontinuing their service (I can't remember what it was honestly)

From personal experience I know that Sprint is horrible.

My parents in Fort Dodge use Verizon. I have Verizon also and it works pretty well there. My family's T-Mobile coverage is pretty bad when we visit Grandpa and Grandma. I don't know much about it but they oftentimes end up on the iWireless network around there.

 

[ImJustKCClone]

I'm not getting any love in my service provider thread. Does anyone have any recommendations for a good service provider in the NW Iowa area? My mom's phone crapped out and they just found out that their service provider is discontinuing their service (I can't remember what it was honestly)

From personal experience I know that Sprint is horrible.

We visit a daughter & fam in Sioux Center on occasion. Never had any problems with our Verizon there.

 

[ImJustKCClone]

You gotta just do you when parenting. When my kids were toddlers, I didn't give them juice. It was milk or water. Now that kids are older, it is the 13yr old who drinks apple juice. The 3yr old also loves orange juice, so she gets some occasionally. We also don't do a lot of pop. I think the youngest 2 had it for the first time this summer at the 4th of July. The older 2 will drink it if we are having pizza or a movie night or if they are at the movies. I don't drink any, and hubby may have 1 or so a week.

My MIL is the worst when it comes to drinks. When we visit she will ask if we need anything special--nope. We get there and she will have Kool Aid coolers (in the plastic bottles with the twist off top) or those juice barrels or other crap for the kids to drink.

We go through a LOT of water when the grandkids visit. Milk with dinner, OJ or apple juice with breakfast. Water the rest of the time. Occassionally a parent will get a non-caf pop or two for them to split, but those stay at the table until they're done. Now that they're all out of sippy cups the rule is they each have their own water bottle with their name on it to carry & replenish. They can fill it as often as they like from the fridge. Point being, the water bottles have caps that flip closed...when you have that many kids running around, things spill.

 

[coolerifyoudid]

You gotta just do you when parenting. When my kids were toddlers, I didn't give them juice. It was milk or water. Now that kids are older, it is the 13yr old who drinks apple juice. The 3yr old also loves orange juice, so she gets some occasionally. We also don't do a lot of pop. I think the youngest 2 had it for the first time this summer at the 4th of July. The older 2 will drink it if we are having pizza or a movie night or if they are at the movies. I don't drink any, and hubby may have 1 or so a week.

My MIL is the worst when it comes to drinks. When we visit she will ask if we need anything special--nope. We get there and she will have Kool Aid coolers (in the plastic bottles with the twist off top) or those juice barrels or other crap for the kids to drink.

There is some really bad crap out there for kids to drink. I've never been a big label reader (sugar content, calories, etc) but some of that stuff is just scary.



I'd better stop before I start ranting about energy drinks.

 

[stormchaser2014]

With every new run, the snow keeps moving a little bit more north.

 

[ImJustKCClone]

With every new run, the snow keeps moving a little bit more north.

Good. I may kill somebody if my route to the airport is high risk on Sunday.

 

[coolerifyoudid]

I'm thinking of calling the Guinness Book of World Records and submitting my entry for "most consecutive days with a ******* cough"

 

[coolerifyoudid]

Good. I may kill somebody if my route to the airport is high risk on Sunday.

It's always good to have a ticket out of the country handy when those pesky murder charges arise.

 

[NWICY]

I'm not getting any love in my service provider thread. Does anyone have any recommendations for a good service provider in the NW Iowa area? My mom's phone crapped out and they just found out that their service provider is discontinuing their service (I can't remember what it was honestly)

From personal experience I know that Sprint is horrible.

Well I'll probably get plenty of disagreement, because they aren't the lowest price around but Verizon is pretty darn solid coverage in Iowa. You might get dropped once in a while while driving but a mile later you've got service again. (usually 3-4 bar). I like it because it just works pretty much wherever I am. Good luck helping her find something she likes.

 

[cowgirl836]

wxman is right. here's mine!

We didn't give our daughter any soda until she was around 6. They don't miss it if they don't know what to miss.

We also kept her away from candy for quite a few years. THAT is hard to do. People love giving kids candy, especially when you are first showing your kids to them. "Oh, she's so cute. Hold on, I have something for you" (reaches into desk drawer and pulls out an industrial sized bowl of candy) "Here sweetie, grab a few things." She isn't a big candy lover to this day. She likes gum or a mint as much as anything.

As far as pop goes, about the only time my daughter gets it is when we go out to eat, which isn't often. And she will order sweet tea or chocolate milk about half of the time.

the bolded is pretty much exactly what I'm going for. I know as a kid I really liked fruits and veggies. Treat day at school? I'd bring an fruit/veggie tray. I don't remember getting a lot of sweets outside of holidays. And pop was a treat, not a normal drink. Though that became an issue because we'd start sneaking it as kids because it was somewhat forbidden.

But yeah, I see the way candy and sweets are handed out by elder relatives to the nieces and I'm like oh boy, how will we navigate this one.

 

[cowgirl836]

You gotta just do you when parenting. When my kids were toddlers, I didn't give them juice. It was milk or water. Now that kids are older, it is the 13yr old who drinks apple juice. The 3yr old also loves orange juice, so she gets some occasionally. We also don't do a lot of pop. I think the youngest 2 had it for the first time this summer at the 4th of July. The older 2 will drink it if we are having pizza or a movie night or if they are at the movies. I don't drink any, and hubby may have 1 or so a week.

My MIL is the worst when it comes to drinks. When we visit she will ask if we need anything special--nope. We get there and she will have Kool Aid coolers (in the plastic bottles with the twist off top) or those juice barrels or other crap for the kids to drink.

when my youngest brother was a toddler, my mom gave him lots of cranberry juice when he was teething. Someone had told her it was ok or something, can't recall the details. I know she didn't do that with us older three. His baby teeth practically rotted out. Granted, he got the bad teeth from my dad's side but they got so stained and it was bad. She was like don't ever make that mistake with your kids. I think you sound pretty similar to my parents on pop policy. It was pretty much a special occasion/pizza night thing. Our "adoptive" grandparents would host NYE or Easter and we called their house "pop heaven" because we could have all the pop at their house.

 

[cowgirl836]

With every new run, the snow keeps moving a little bit more north.

is that good or bad for us?

 

[cowgirl836]

not in IA but I think I mentioned that we had to switch to Verizon when we got the house because no one else got service. I'd take a good look at the service maps for all the main players and assume that the maps are exaggerating. so if Sprint shows barely there coverage for the area, assume it won't be good at all.

 

[jcyclonee]

I'm thinking of calling the Guinness Book of World Records and submitting my entry for "most consecutive days with a ******* cough"

My cold this fall gave me a cough that lasted about 40 days. Except for 2 days at the start of it, I felt fine otherwise.

 

[CloneinWDSM]

I'm thinking of calling the Guinness Book of World Records and submitting my entry for "most consecutive days with a ******* cough"

You're challenging my coworker then

I'm pretty sure she's been coughing for like a month.

Always sick I feel

 

[stormchaser2014]

is that good or bad for us?

Better for me worse for you. I need that blue to move up just a few more miles.

 

[coolerifyoudid]

My cold this fall gave me a cough that lasted about 40 days. Except for 2 days at the start of it, I felt fine otherwise.

Mine started before Thanksgiving when I got sick and it has just hung on. Like you, I feel fine outside of it. I just hope to get rid of it before next weekend. I don't want to be that jerk coughing around everyone during the holidays.

 

[NWICY]

My FIL drinks Dr Pepper and only Dr Pepper. We have had to stop him from giving drinks to LittleWX several times.

IMO once lilWX had it he wouldn't want it again. That's one drink I'll take a pass on.

 

[mctallerton]

I feel like I am tempting fate putting this in the Christmas movie thread since one of my gifs from the movie has already been deleted, but this is one the best (and by that I mean worst) holiday movies out there.

Who didn't love a grumpy animated Adam Sandler finding his appreciation for Hanukkah through basketball?