Not quite a New Year but a new start.

26 December 2015

Hello I hope you had a great Christmas, we have just come out of our food,present and visitor coma and I am starting to feel ok.
I am glad yesterday wasn't hot because I don't think I could have survived you see master 9 was jumping up and down beside our bed at 5:30 in the morning telling us that it is time to get up, its Christmas,its Christmas.
By the time we left to go to lunch ( its is a 1.5 hour drive), I was on my third coffee and feeling a bit tired, I didn't eat to much at lunch this year and lunch and desert were cleaned up fairly quickly before we had to leave.


Ok I am now going to share with you something I don't share ( other than my immediate family know), my daughter has a condition which means she still has "accidents", her tummy will be all bloated to the point where she will throw up because there is no room in there for food.  When she is at her worst she will be angry, moody and she will even throw up because the food has nowhere to go.  She has to be constantly reminded to go to the toilet which is met with anger and us being told that she doesn't need to go and she can't smell it because she is so used to it.
Some days I just want to go and cry because  I am tired of dealing with it and don't know what to do, I blame myself because I am the one who is responsible for the food that is eaten and mostly I blame myself because I should have been able to prevent this and should have seen it happening.  I have done the getting angry,bribing her to go to the toilet, medication, a hospital visit to get flushed out, telling her that she smells, been brutally honest with her.
 
Today I decided that I have to be at the table to make the changes, today is the day we go forward and get rid of this once and for all.  This means that I go back to cooking decent meals, I make their snacks for school and for home doing cooked breakfasts in the morning, and more importantly limiting the amount of junk food and soft drink ( soda) they drink.   So I will be going back to planning a menu for the fortnight, and yes there will be some nights where left-overs are eaten or they may be turned into bubble and squeek.  I am going to have to learn how to be a bit more frugal and make the food budget stretch a bit further. No I may be slightly taking this a bit to far but it is time to get back to basics and be a bit more engaged with what my family are eating and what chemicals they are putting in their mouths, I am not going to the extent of no sugar because I don't think that is entirely realistic and it would be to hard to control.  So it will be bringing out the cook books ( Betty Crocker, CWA cook book, Good House keeping) and doing things from scratch.  I am also going to try some of the "cleaning" products - bicarb soda, vinegar, Eucalyptus oil and see how much that reduces my grocery bill.

As a mother,wife it is my responsibility to look after my family, now I can hear you all say it is not 1950, you don't have to be a slave to your family, well I am sorry to say but the pendulum has swung and I am adopting a great deal of things that the housewife of the 1950's did.
Not only will I be doing a great deal more cooking and baking but I am going to start learning to sew, knit, crochet because lets face it all of these things are dying arts and well I am going to join the movement and help bring them back.  Things that my Mum and Grand-mothers taught me, so as you can see by the title I am not waiting for the New Year to come I am going to start doing this now.