Rarely do I have anything good to say about SS11, but he's an excellent eater I'll give him that. He will eat anything I put in front of him without complaint, and he ALWAYS cleans his plate. (Unlike DS5 who is extremely picky) He's always excited for dinner.

I've spent time with the kids ALL DAY. We played board games this morning, I made lunch and then they had a friend over and we all went swimming for hours. Friend just left. I asked SS11 to go read a book quietly and BS5 to read his leapad books so I can start dinner. Finally some time alone right? No. SS comes moping through and when DH asks what wrong he says "I just don't want to read." DH didn't respond so I said well you can read or play a game... there's plenty to do...or you can sit and be bored, I'm about to make dinner.

Spent the afternoon trying to get DH to take DS and SS swimming, which he'd already promised to do. I can't take them because the baby has a fever so I'm staying here. He found all sorts of reasons to procrastinate because he wanted to play video games. "They needed to clean their room, they needed to eat lunch (which they'd already eaten at 11:30), they should read first, how about quiet time with a movie". But he's FINALLY gone and I can have some ME time without DS being wild man and SS being annoying. YAY!! I think I will watch Property Brothers and veg out.

I'm just gonna be ridiculously honest. Sometimes I flat out do not like SS11. I'm easily annoyed as it is, and he just pushes it too far. The thing is, I wear my emotions on my sleeve, and I feel....well, I Know....people can see it. I'm not great at hiding it and putting on a loving face. And I'm judged for it. No one (other than family) would ever say anything about it of course, but I can see it in their faces. People will often make comments to him about how cute/sweet he is...but I rarely see that side of him; and even when I do, I'm still annoyed.