When is a cracker ever a chip?

My daughter loves crackers.... She'll only eat ritz wholewheat crackers lately, which if anyone remembers, probably isn't the best thing for her digestive tract. I think her love for these crackers has something to do with the fact that she can feed them to herself, although I've given her several different varieties of foods cut up on her high chair tray for her to self feed. She's stuck on these ritz crackers, though.
The other night my husband made a yummy roasted chicken with veggies and stuffing, all of which I offered to my picky eater. She wanted nothing to do with any of it. So rather than see her go hungry, which means she'll be awake at 1:00 am wanting a bottle, I go for the crackers. I've been dressing up the crackers with cream cheese or soy cheese to try and add some sort of nutritional value to these plain crackers. I know that it sometimes takes several attempts at introducing a food before she'll take to it, so I'm willing to be patient and give her crackers in the meantime.
My husband sees her snubbing his wonderful cooking again and also sees me getting out the crackers, to which he says "Crackers, again? Gees, you might as well be giving her chips" Um, no, I might be giving her CRACKERS, distinctly different than chips. I know he means that I'm just giving her snack food, but I'm not giving her chips, or french fries or even saltines. I'm giving her whole grain motherfucking crackers! And sometimes with soy cheese...

I'm beginning to love this time of year, although it's cold and I hate winter, I feel myself coming into the January slump. The holidays are over (thankfully) and there's little to do but cozy up inside the house and relax. My husband got me TIVO for Christmas, which I am now referring to as TI-HO, because that is what I am slowly becoming- a ho for tv and rather than make myself feel bad for being a tv slug, I'm embracing it. It's the only bit of technology I have in my house. There's no computer, no video games, not even a microwave. TIVO is the only indication you'll find in my house to prove that we have indeed entered the the 21st century.
The only thing that I find a bit annoying about TIVO is how it judges me. When you program TIVO to record your favorite programs, TIVO takes it one step further and records programs that it thinks you might like based on your previous selections. Great feature, except that I've given TIVO the impression that I'm 12 and into really BAD tv. It has recorded shows like Family Matters and Full House. Ok, so we may have selected an episode or 2 of Wings and Reba on the WB is kind of funny, but Full House? We adamantly rejected these suggestions by giving as many "thumb downs" as TIVO would allow when asked to review their picks. This will prevent TIVO from making these selections in the future. So, for now I'm safe from the Olson twins, but Blossom is still out there, along with Alf and the kids from 7th Heaven.... Maybe we should have invested in satelite radio instead... I miss Howard already.