dessert

i give my kids dessert every single night.
we're not talking a large wedge of cake or a banana split.
i give them a cookie
or a handful of m and ms...
or a popsicle...
or a little dish of ice cream with sprinkles...
ya know, something small and sweet and delish!
and cause lily can't have refined sugar i do the "healthy" version of all of the above (newman os, sun drops, all fruit pops, etc...)
but...
i was testing out the boards at work the other day and i posted "do you give your kids dessert every night" and 25 out of 30 people said they did NOT?!
i was all, "huh?"
i thought EVERYONE gave their kids dessert?
maybe i just haven't been asking about it!
so...

am i the only one on the planet who gives their kids dessert every single night!? am i messing them up by doing so? here i was thinking i was underserving them sweets and maybe, gulp, i'm overserving them!?

potty mouth

i still laugh at potty words.
and farts.

i just think they're so funny.
and so do my kids.

at least once a day a big fart by any one of us brings all of us into hysterics.
it's like family fart bonding.

my kids also like the words vagina (or kagina) and butt.
they never ever use them in a mean or insulting way.
they just like to say them.
and, gulp, we laugh when they do.
they never say them in school or with their friends. it's sort of a family thing.
i want them to grow up and not be ashamed of things and find humor in life. but i don't want them to be all gross and inappropriate.

so...

do i curb their kaginas?

or...

do i let them keep on laughing and kaginaing with us?

(ooh, i'm sorta scared here for what you're going to say!)

my MIL's on facebook

i love my MIL!
i really do.
she's awesome.

but...
she friended me on facebook.

i don't post crazy-ass things on there or anything but sometimes people post semi-incriminating pics of me, or write silly things about my pics. and sometimes i comment on things or people comment on my things...and i just don't know that she needs to see all that.

so...

do i friend her?

or

do i just sort of ignore that it ever happened?

or

do i have an honest convo with her about why i don't think it's such a great thing?

strep

over the past two weeks about 7 kids in lily's kindergarten class have had strep.
cut to: sasha's 3rd "annie" birthday party this weekend.
the party started at 4:00 and lily felt great.
she was running around all crazy, having a blast with her cousins until about 5:00when she plopped down on mike's lap and just laid there for an hour or so.
i was all, "hmmm..."
the next morning she woke up at 7:00 and complained that her throat hurt so i took her to the doc and...
STREP!

so...

do i email everyone at the party and let them know that lily had strep?

or...

do i just sorta lay low and pray that nobody gets it? she wasn't really hanging with any of the 3 year olds!