What we are eating and what's eating us Tuesday!

I love cottage cheese and anything.  Once, I went an entire month just alternating between cottage cheese and cream of wheat. LOL  So, good and easy on the pouch.

I hate the strawberry. Never order it.  I only do chocolate and vanilla with my cold coffee & lots of ice.  It's the only way I like it.

Linda,

My food worked out well yesterday, and my husband is starting to harvest tomatoes and peppers (bell peppers & hot peppers) from our garden, so I have no excuse not to eat my veggies.  The cherry tomatoes are so sweet this year!

I have to take our pug, Polly, to the vet this morning for her annual exam, shots, etc.  Although she is our littlest dog, she is a wild thing in the car...driving with her is like being inside a nuclear reactor.  I really should crate her for the trip, but that would mean heaving the crate around and it would deprive Polly of the joy of watching the scenery and commenting on it.

B: coffee protein shake
S1: iced skinny latte
S2: honeydew melon
L: corned beef, mixed veggies
S: cheese, cherry tomatoes
D: scallops, broccoli casserole
S: frozen cherries (from our own tree - they're like little popsicles when they're frozen)

Jean

MY UNJURY IS HERE.  Okay, a little too exciting.  I mixed up the packet of strawberry in eight ounces of water and ice and it is not delicious, but it is doable.  I probably won't order strawberry again.  It is kind of strong. So far, not milky, which is good.  It is taking me a long time to drink it because it is eight ounces of water.  One good thing, I get my water in while getting in the protein. 

No grouchy pouchie, just grouchie ME. No good reason either.

Chai protien tea for breakfast again today.  It's becoming a habit.  Well, I ticked off my DIL, the one that's prego, this past weekend.  She was talking about names for the baby I I told her I didn't like the boy's name she picked out.  It doesn't flow when you say it with our last name.  Then I said I'd just call him Bubba or something if he's a boy.  Grandma's can call their grandbabies anything they want.  Well, evidently she took that I was being nasty and said something to my son.  He then proceeded to call me from Niagara Falls and let me know that it wasn't nice for me to say "I'll call him what ever the hell I want to call him"  I never said that, and it wasn't my intent at all to start something.  Don't grandma's always have pet names for their grands?  My brother was called Punky by the whole family because my Grandma called him that when he was a baby.  To this day he i***** to me and not George.  Geez, I'm going to have to be more careful about giving my opinion or I'll never get my hands on this new grandbaby.  Now I almost hope it's a girl. (I do like the girl name, Olivia, but I'll call her Livvy). Gram needs a pet name. 
I'm already sweating.  It's going to be a scorcher here and the humidity appears to be up.  I sat on the patio drinking my tea this morning and had to come in because I was getting too hot.  I hate being couped up in the summer because of the heat.
TTFN
Jan

I have always called the kids nicknames.  My oldest grandson is noodle as in doodle noodle.  Mathew the four year old is sweetie and the baby is Baby Girl.  My son's boy is tookers and his daughter is princess.  Yeah, we can call them whatever we want. LOL.  And, you're right, the nicknames we give them sticks.  My oldest grandson will be eleven and even his friends call him doodle. 

But, with dils it is a precarious position we mil hold.  While we want them to be like our kids, we forget that they don't have the history with us and don't know that we say our mind but are not meaning to be mean.  Hopefully, your dil will eventually get used to your ways. LOL. Mine is getting used to me these days.

Both of my boys have dated their spouses since 10th grade, so they've been around since high school.  They should know me by now.  I think my one DIL is closer to me because she had a basically dead beat Mom.  She tells me I'm more like a mom to her than her bio mom and she feels comfortable with me.  The  prego DIL is an only child and doted on by her mom and dad, so I don't think she feels very close to me at all.  When they got married I told her she could call me Mom, Jan or whatever she felt comfortable with.  She doesn't call me anything, basically just waits until she has my attention and then talks to me.  Hopefully one day she'll feel comfortable with me and be able to tell me off if I need it.

Jan, my step sons wife calls me Brenda but there is sometimes that she calls me "Shawn's fathers wife" which is just rude to me. I would rather have Shawn's stepmother than that one.

Most of the time she just waits to look me in the face so she doesn't have to call me anything.

DIL's have a special way about them that is for darn sure. Most of the time it isn't a special way either.......at least that is how it is for me.

Like when Carol was pregnant...I hauled her all over for her tests and such and Shawn's mom's side did nothing...but when Kayden was born they are right there. Most of the time they are the ones that see him the most and take care of him and the whole shot. We get the left overs...or so it seems to Bill and I.

Jeannie, my DIL is a step DIL and that makes it even worse. She refers to me some of the time as Brenda which is fine but then there is the times that I am "Shawn's fathers wife" which is just rude to me. I wouldn't dream of calling someone that. She is a really rather strange girl and such an attitude problem. Wow....the attitude is what gets to Bill and I...it is terrible.