Cleaning, Shopping & Never-Ending Battles Over The Kid
by Kecia • September 12, 2011 • Home Life
This weekend consisted of cleaning, cleaning, and more cleaning…with a little work and shopping thrown in. Saturday, James and I thoroughly cleaned the living room and kitchen. That evening, I alternated between playing video games with him and working. While he was gone to Pennsylvania, I bought him Need for Speed Undercover for the PS 3. He only had one of the game (Little Big Planet), and he enjoys racing games so I surprised him with it. Back when we had the Nintendo Game Cube, we had Need for Speed Underground 1 & 2. This one just isn’t the same, but I like it nonetheless.
Sunday, we got up and James took Sawyer to meet my mom so he could go to church with her. On the way home, James grabbed a newspaper for the coupons and breakfast. After we ate and got ready, we headed to town for groceries and few other things. I was able to get 4 Cascade trial packs of their dishwashing action pacs for free with my coupons. I also got a few jars of baby food for free as well. We also got what we hope is Sawyer’s last container of formula. It’s a bittersweet moment to know that we soon won’t have to pay for formula anymore, but that only means our little monkey is growing up.
After shopping, James and I came back and finished the rest of the house. We cleaned both bathrooms, our room, and Sawyer’s room. I started to tackle the guest bedroom, but just couldn’t get into it. So, I just organized the clutter a bit instead. You can now walk though it!
We also wrapped Sawyer’s presents and filled the favor bags for his party. Later, we went to my mom’s to get Sawyer and eat dinner. It turned out that they cooked fish, so I munched on a few hushpuppies and fries and then ate dinner when I got home.
While I was preparing leftovers (mashed potatoes, beans, carrots, and peas) for Sawyer, I look over to see my step-dad feeding him fish. I told him to stop, that Sawyer isn’t supposed to have seafood. Of course, I got the third degree for that. He asked why, then his mom’s long time boyfriend started talking about it too. It wasn’t enough that I just said not to feed him fish.
So I got mad and ranted a bit about how tired I was of everyone trying to feed MY son what they thought he should be eating, and how I am just going by what his doctor said. I don’t want him to have an allergic reaction to something. It would be an embarrassment to me if I had to take Sawyer to the doctor and tell him that he ate fish and had a reaction, because I know his pediatrician would be thinking, I told you no seafood… It would make me look like a bad parent, even though it wasn’t me doing the feeding.
When I sat down to the table to feed Sawyer, my step-dad sarcastically said, “Well did his doctor say he could have potatoes???” And I looked at him and said, “He didn’t say he couldn’t…” He didn’t speak to me for the rest of the time we were there. I am sure it isn’t the end of the food battles, because there are many others in my family that love to just fill him full of chocolate and whatever else they can get him to put in his mouth. However, I’m tired of being so passive about it and will be putting my foot down from now on because my son isn’t going to be raised on junk food and be overweight by the time he’s 10 like I was.
