I’m just a broken record at this point. I can’t stand living with the kids. It’s the little things too. So, I’ve known for a long time that SS takes more bags of chips than he should and if we come home or come down stairs he will throw the bag that he wasn’t supposed to be eating in the trash. So, l don’t know what’s worse, the sneaking of food or the blatant wasting of food. I see full bags of chips in the trash all the time. DH is oblivious. But, I’m sick of bring this stuff up to DH. When I do and I phrase the complaint the way I normally do, DH counters with semantics – “He doesn’t ‘always’ do it!” or “It didn’t happen last week, so you can’t say it happens a lot”. I’m sick of him and his word play and literalness. His kids are both the same way and it’s annoying as anything. Anyway, I’ve mentioned it to DH before and he normally defends SS, tonight however, he actually saw the full bag of chips in the trash because I pointed it out.

But, of course, DH doesn’t discipline his favorite child. There is no yelling, just a couple of jokes. His answer is just to not buy it anymore. So, now there will be no more chips in the house...that is until DH forgets why he stopped buying chips and will resume buying them. This will happen...repeatedly. SS doesn’t give a crap. He knows there’s no real punishment and he doesn’t care. And SD acted similarly tonight. She was told that she could have dinner and fruit and she decided that since she had her fruit, she could have a bag of chips too.

I’m sick of hounding these kids. Why am I the only one who notices?! I want to disengage and just not discipline or care. But, I get pulled into their crap because they are kids in my house, eating my food. Why can’t I think of them as roommates. I could care less what my roommates eat as long as they don’t eat my stuff. Why is it that I’m fuming and thinking about discipline in the house, while DH just laughs, puts it in the back of his mind, and lets the same issues repeat over and over. Why can't I just not see these things like DH? I can ignore the things that go on in my house, but I still think about them. I don't know how to let these things go.