The One Hour Bottle

Every infant has their idiosyncrasies! Even if you have had your 8th child, you have to find the niche within. It was no different with Gwendolyn today.

I had my first sitting ‘job’ with little Gwen. Amber had to go somewhere and this was the first official baby-sitting time with her. She is breast fed and did not want any part of the bottle – I thought. She was gagging like I was giving her lemons! After a half hour of trying on and off, I had to rewarm the milk. Well, I found her idiosyncrasy – she wants her milk very warm! Once I had satisfied her, she scarfed that milk down like a champ. Then she slept the rest of the time she was here. A cushy job!

We adults are no different. We all have our own little (sometimes big) idiosyncrasies. We do things in a certain order or else we don’t feel we did it right. Sometimes we will eat a certain food only on a certain day – like pizza is only for Friday nights. We go along with our lives and suddenly realize that we are creatures of habits. If you think you can change them, watch out! You can end up driving yourself crazy. It throws off your whole routine and you will not feel like you have accomplished anything.

But anyone who watches children knows, there is no such thing as routine. I guess that is why for the last few years watching the Grandkids, my mind is quite a bit slower and addled! I do realize that this is only temporary, they will grow up, they will go to school and I will miss these times more than I could ever imagine.

So, skip the routine when the kids are over – they are little and cuddly for such a short time; enjoy every minute with them. It is a worthwhile adventure.

From Grandma, with love.

Canon Photo Printer–GREAT!

I received a Canon Selphy CP800 Photo printer for a Christmas gift. I love it! It is a dye-sublimation thermal transfer printer, which makes photos the same way that stores and photo shops do, heat on color cartridge. I had a Kodak D-STT printer, but it became obsolete and expensive to get cartridges, and pictures were costing $1.00/print. The Canon only costs about .25 cents/print and the pictures come out great. It is fast, easy to install to be compatible with my computer, quiet and the cartridge lasts for more than the 35 prints it says it does.

There is one thing – the photos came out a little darker than they were in Photo gallery, so if it seemed like the picture was dark, I just lightened it before printing and reverted back to the original after.

Unlike my old printer, I could send the picture to the printer and almost immediately go back to looking for the next picture I wanted to make a copy of. With the old Kodak, I had to wait until the copier was almost done with the print.

I would definitely recommend the Canon Selphy CP800 if you know someone who likes to hand out pictures, or like me, show off your gorgeous Grandkids! Oh, this printer also makes Post Card copies – you need to buy the post card paper made for this printer though.

Pros: Easy set up, easy to use, economical, pictures are crisp and clear

Cons: The pictures come a little dark

I would definitely recommend this printer for anyone who enjoys printing photos to share.

This is a sample of how I spent my day today:

Happy and Blessed New Year!

From Grandma, with love!