The things we do for our children ...

I think I can probably list every food item we have in our house. I won't list them here, but I still think I can list them. That just goes to show you how little we actually have here that we can eat.

Because of this, I have stopped eating a lot less. I know I am not the only mom that does it. I will seriously cut down on what I eat so Aden, and I suppose Richard, can have a lot more to eat. And, like I said, I know there are more moms out there that do the very same. It's just one of the many sacrifices we make as mothers.

Today, for example, when Aden went down for his first nap, I really started to get hungry. His nap time is typically from around 10:30 to 12:30, so my lunchtime falls right in the middle of it. I thought about what I could eat, and checked in the fridge. I could've had a tomato sandwich, or even a cheese whiz sandwich. But I decided against it, because Aden likes tomatoes, and he eats the bread and the cheese whiz.

Instead, I opted for a couple Oreo Cakesters -- something Aden isn't fond of.

Richard, my brilliant fiancee (uh ...), has not noticed that when I don't (or can't) make much for dinner, I'll eat about half of what I'd normally eat. He hasn't noticed that when I snack, it tends to be when there's extra food in the house (rare, but it happens), and it's a very minimal snack, basically to keep me from near passing out! He hasn't noticed that I won't drink milk unless there's more than one jug of it in the house. He hasn't noticed that I sacrifice so much so he and Aden can be somewhat satisfied.

Richard comes home and drinks pretty much an entire jug of juice to himself. Juice that Aden drinks. In the past two days (and two jugs of juice), I've had two glasses of milk, both mixed with water, so the juice will last longer. If Richard wasn't drinking the juice, it would last twice as long, because when I give Aden juice I mix it with water as well (to make it last longer). Richard, however ... pours himself a full, huge glass of it, with no water mixed in at all. If it weren't for Aden, I would probably drink a lot more juice and wouldn't mix it with water. I don't try and make the juice last for Richard to have it ... yet he must think that's why I do it.

Note that Richard only drinks juice when he's out of beer. I almost wish we had beer right now ...

If Richard hadn't gone and chugged the last 3 or 4 jugs of juice, we'd still have 4 or 5 cans of it in the freezer. Instead, we have 2. Now lookie! We have to buy more juice!

Ugh ... the things we do for our kids ...