Food and stress= no good

Old drafts, need to come to light.  Snippets of my up down Fall journey. Food, weaning decisions, balance.  Acceptance. 

11/26/13 

I'm tired of having a family with different diets. I'm tired of all the things Liam can't eat.  I'm tired of stressing about it.  I wouldn't want to teach this to my daughter, but I'm a little tired of being different than everyone else.  And actually, I have no strong moral conviction against eating meat.  If it's good stuff: local and organic.   You won't see me buying packaged crap at food 4 less. (I'm not a total snob, I do shop there too). 

I worry about how it will be to travel.  Or when friends invite us to dinner, or play dates for Liam later.  What will he eat?   It's even stressful recently in our own household.  

This decision has taken me a while.  It took me a while to decide to give Liam fish oil even with all the good brain benefits it provided.  See, I didn't turn vegetarian some years ago.  I've been one my entire life.   

I think perhaps this has been one of the most difficult periods of my life and definitely one of the hardest decisions.   But I'm inching toward readiness to have a balanced family life.  Thinking about what's good for all of us.