Get Your Child to Sleep with Sleepytime Secrets

goodness I'm tired all of a sudden...

I get 2 under 6 kids into bed in 20 mins flat no prob :-P

I probably could get my nephews into bed by threatening to serve Spam...

It always sounds disgusting, but when one actually bothers to cook with it, it's not that bad. It's just hard sometimes to get over the initial revulsion when you are taking it out of the can.

-georg

Not it isn't... It's impossible! No can do spam!

And Spam that close to bedtime leads to tummy upsets in the night...

Hehehehe... I occasionally need a can to thump James over the head with to get him to go to be, and another to thump him with in the morning to wake him up...

without :-)

all it takes is training from the cradle to go to bed without fuss hehehe

Hmmm.they are still in the easy age.........:)

UNless that is all you can afford....I can remember summer time - we lived off the veggies from our garden and whatever happened to be the cheapest meat...usually spam or scrapple. EIther way, disgusting, but all we had (this was when I was the same age as my oldest and Mother was out of work during the summer - teacher...worse was when Dad decided to quit his job and try his hand at starting a business....thankfully we had loving neighbors

You've come to the right place! A quilt will do wonders for a child.

-- Anita --

Hey Jeanne, are home in NZ already! Must get the laptop turned on to msg you!

Geez my kids go to bed no probs already.

Even then I couldn't have done Spam - I'd have gone veggie! As I have before when times were hard and real meat was not affordable.

hehehehehe! At 12, James occasionally rebels and procrastinates and sulks about it, but he soon goes off anyway. Life wouldn't be worth living if he didn't - for him, at least! ;)

As a tiddler, he was always good at going off to sleep. When he went through a very short phase of not settling after he'd recovered from being unwell, I just used good old fashioned controlled crying techniques, and he gave up and slept through the night after 3 attempts!

Just after the war it was a luxury (though my mother never shared my view!) I used to like spam fritters.

Remember, we all had Ration Books in the 1940s - even the Royal Family

- and the amount of meat you were allowed was pitiful. I belong to the generation that still think of roast chicken as a special treat, and feel guilty if we eat a whole Mars Bar instead of cutting it into slices to last all week!! Sweets didn't come off ration until the early 1950s

-- Sally at the Seaside ~~~~~~~~~~ (uk)

I can cook Spam so well that you will fight over who gets the last bite. I really can. (If you don't agree, we can always toss it to the gators, no problem.) After Katrina, we even learned to cook pizza on the barbeque grill and were about to attempt a wedding cake. The electricity came on about then. We may never know if we could have done that. Polly

My parents lived through the war and all the rationing. Mum taught me how to make a pound of mince feed eight people: MUCH better than spam! :)

I still make sweets last aaaaages!

I have kept one of my mother's old recipe books from rationing times that has things like making a butter substitute out of copha. And I have a couple of her beautiful embroideries done on WWII parachute silk - you can see where the silk was unpicked and re-pieced.

It is amazing what you can do when you learn the difference between "need" and "want" or "nice to have". I sometimes feel a bit guilty about the amazing stockpile of fabric and gadgets I have at my disposal, and my "hobby" quilts are nowhere near as well made or prolific as those of past quilters who "needed" to make quilts from what they had to hand and in very harsh environments. Can you imagine sewing for years by candlelight with the same needle and only one colour thread? Some of us cannot even remember pre-rotary cutter quilt making!