I stopped in to Blog Fodder this morning thinking I missed another week and I was going to have to do two entry’s.  I was so happy that we actually skipped Christmas week. 

This weeks topic was suggested by practigal and this is my #5 Entry.

So all morning I was debating on what to write about.  The focus was handed to me in a rather different way.  

About an hour ago my daughter was picked up to spend the weekend with her Dad.  He arrived with his new girlfriend (we are social able most of the time) and she was looking at a picture I have framed on my windowsill of Samantha as a baby.  I decided to pull out Sami’s baby picture book.   

Maybe I shouldn’t have, it might have bothered her a little, but I wanted her to see Sami and what she was like as a child vs. a 13 year old!  Do you think I should have showed her the book or was I out of line with her being the new gal and all?   

Regardless and onto my In-law entry….  Looking through the book was great.  I hadn’t been there in so long and there were lots of pictures bringing back memories of my in-laws.  Eric and I never married so they really were just “common law in-laws”, but it’s all the same.  Eric and have been apart for 7 years but I still have a good relationship with them.  I had a great relationship the in-laws, not the norm I know, from the get-go and they credit me with pulling Eric’s life together.  Looking back, I think they were right.  Once we split he went right back down the tubes.  Donna (Mother In-law) still considers me her daughter, and tells me that often.   

Oh but these In-laws were guilty of sugar crimes!  You see, I was very into having a healthy baby.  I had natural child birth and was pretty particular about what I fed Samantha.  I don’t agree with those feeder bottles.  I am of the opinion that they are one of the major causes for overweight children because they are eating foods way too soon, but that’s another topic.  Once Samantha was ready to start eating solids, my Mom handed me down a baby food grinder.  Our dinner would go in the grinder and she would eat the same foods as we did.  (I didn’t go too far, she did have baby food for lunch)   The In-laws all time favorite thing to do was sneak sweets into my baby girl.  As I looked through the album I found two specific pictures to share and prove my point.  Not to mention that I caught them many a time. 

I wasn’t really upset, but pretended to be, just so they could feel sneaky and all. 

The two pictures below are my evidence!     

My first incling of this sugar obsession in order to spoil my child occured when they were visiting our home from VA to MA.   I came around the corner into the kitchen and the grandparents were wiping donut cream off my daughters’ mouth and Mommaw was saying “quick, hide the evidence”.  Busted were they!  They have yet to live it down!