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Jun. 23rd, 2009
Rats and weasels
Jun. 23rd, 2009 02:00 pmI am no longer living with children. I am living with crankypants weasels who refuse to eat. They are, I am certain, cranky because they are hungry, and they are refusing to eat properly.
Well, Emer ate some lunch, but Linnea has only just stared her calorific intake for the day, really, with cashews.
I think the xylitol is part of the problem. I think it tainted their tastebuds this morning and nothing tasted nice afterwards.
As part of being cranky Linnea is refusing to go to dancing today, which is fine, but INSTEAD she wants to do something totally impossible.
On the plus side, we had a lot of fun this morning hanging up laundry and discussing the various meanings of "atmosphere."
Well, Emer ate some lunch, but Linnea has only just stared her calorific intake for the day, really, with cashews.
I think the xylitol is part of the problem. I think it tainted their tastebuds this morning and nothing tasted nice afterwards.
As part of being cranky Linnea is refusing to go to dancing today, which is fine, but INSTEAD she wants to do something totally impossible.
On the plus side, we had a lot of fun this morning hanging up laundry and discussing the various meanings of "atmosphere."
Minor Domestic Accomplishments Today
Jun. 23rd, 2009 05:03 pm1 load each of light and dark laundry.
Made the bed (how I got out of the habit I don't know)
Offered everyone breakfast and lunch, it's not my fault if they throw my generosity back in my face.
Replaced toddler seat on garden swing with big-child seat without safety straps or back or anything (this involved going into the attic and realising I couldn't get around in my skirt, so I had to take it off on the top step and throw it down; it's a miracle I didn't break someone's neck).
Did a huge marathon tidy-up in the front room, since Linnea didn't want to go to dancing after all, including emptying all the toyboxes and playing "trash or treasure" with the girls.
Spent ages in the kitchen, washing tetrapacks for recycling and things like that.
Tried several new ways of getting the children to like xylitol; failed.
I don't remember what else I did. I know that this - what I have now - is my second hot drink of the day, because my morning coffee went cold while I did other things, and that this is the second time today I've sat at the computer.
Incidentally, can you people tell when I'm sitting down at leisure at the computer and when I'm typing stuff in passing as I go?
Made the bed (how I got out of the habit I don't know)
Offered everyone breakfast and lunch, it's not my fault if they throw my generosity back in my face.
Replaced toddler seat on garden swing with big-child seat without safety straps or back or anything (this involved going into the attic and realising I couldn't get around in my skirt, so I had to take it off on the top step and throw it down; it's a miracle I didn't break someone's neck).
Did a huge marathon tidy-up in the front room, since Linnea didn't want to go to dancing after all, including emptying all the toyboxes and playing "trash or treasure" with the girls.
Spent ages in the kitchen, washing tetrapacks for recycling and things like that.
Tried several new ways of getting the children to like xylitol; failed.
I don't remember what else I did. I know that this - what I have now - is my second hot drink of the day, because my morning coffee went cold while I did other things, and that this is the second time today I've sat at the computer.
Incidentally, can you people tell when I'm sitting down at leisure at the computer and when I'm typing stuff in passing as I go?
Xylitol Disguises
Jun. 23rd, 2009 09:19 pmWe have some sorbitol sweets which I rolled in xylitol; she ate a few and stopped. Then I made her warm chocolate to drink; downside, rice milk contains other sugars. Upside, she slowly put almost a teaspoonful of xylitol in her mouth.
We might bake with xylitol so she can have some at the end of every meal.
We might bake with xylitol so she can have some at the end of every meal.