a bowl of cheerios

so, i love my son. i really do, but lately his constant complaining about EVERYTHING has gotten on my nerves. one of the biggest battles of late is food - all things food. from how he asks to his ungrateful heart to his incessant complaining. he does have some sensory issues that revolve around food and since i gag on even the sight of bananas i can appreciate those issues. BUT there is no acceptance for constant complainig.

this morning, by 9 am i had heard him complain about what his father fixed for supper last night, that i needed to go to the store because i had nothing to eat (i had just shopped!), and that he was NOT going to eat the lunch i would probably fix of peanut butter and jelly! after fixing cinnamon rolls for breakfast he threw away the outside of the roll and then asked for something else! umm..no, i don' t think so bud!

i head to the shower completely frustrated. i think best in the shower and while in there i decided that maybe he should have cheerios for a while. plain old cheerios. no milk, no flavor, just plain little o's of fortified cereal!

so lunch time approached. he was jumping up and down demanding food. ugh....i calmly handed him a bowl of cheerios. he looked at it and asked what that was. umm.. cheerios. why he asks...well darling son, frankly, "your attitude has been horrible. i am done wasting my time, money, and food on someone that throws it away or throws a fit over it. you may eat cheerios today. if you don't want them we will try again at dinner." we had a bit of a stare down. okay, so he was crying and yelling, but he had the nerve to tell me he had not been warned about this. really??? the past several weeks of talking about having a grateful heart and all those opportunities to show that? i didn't back down. he eventually ate the entire bowl.

guess who's hungry again? guess what he is having a bowl of? i'm not sure how long he's going to be eating cheerios....