[Graleyne]

I guess I just get frustrated because I feel like I have no say so in how my kids are raised.

It isn't that she disagrees with the type of diet I would like to feed them, its that I know that she will flat out go against it.

She doesn't have to (and I certainly don't expect her to) AGREE with my parenting style, but she absolutely 100% has to RESPECT it. They are MY children. But she doesn't respect it. She doesn't respect ME.

I am just really tired of it all. It is like everyday it is something else. Everything is a battle and I am TIRED.

I don't feed them the right kind of food. I don't put the right kind of clothes on them. I don't fix their hair the right way. They don't wear the right jacket on the right kind of day. I don't iron their clothes - or if I do then I do it wrong.

I mean honestly, all of this sounds like little things I should be able to just ignore and let go, but I hear it all EVERY SINGLE DAY, and more than once a day.

MOST of the time Mike defends me, but there are times when he just hands me a load of excuses. "She did the same thing with Timmy." Then when I tell him I hope she enjoyed doing it with Timmy because she is done doing it with Olivia, I have to hear that she is old and I just have to overlook her yadda yadda.

I guess I'm just throwing an Aerrica pity party today. I'm just frustrated with everything.