If mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy!

Today, I’ve been trying to find some recipes of things I can cook for little man.  He is in daycare from about 7:15-5:30 M-F.  He gets breakfast at 8, lunch at 11, and then a light snack at 3.  Needles to say, he is starving by then time we get home around 6.  Since he’s so hungry, I typically go ahead and feed him one of those gerber graduate dinners whiel I cook.  It’s just what we do.  He’s one and he’s starving.  I want to get away from those packaged dinners and start cooking him something myself that would be better for him.  So, I go to my WW message boards.  I normally post on one particular board, but I posted my toddler food question on a moms board.  Well I got so much flack for feeding my child a separate meal.  Maybe one or two people actually answered my question, instead I got probably 20 or so posts of people critiquing my parenting and one poster calling me a short-order cook. 

The little man has hand-foot-mouth right now.  We noticed all these bumps on his hand on Tues nite.  Then noticed some on his feet.  They look like fire-ant bites, but they were alllllll over his hands.  So, I mentioned it to the daycare director, b/c if there are fire-ants in the playground, they need to know.  But no other parents have mentioned it.  The director said there was something called hand-foot-mouth disease, but she couldn’t remember what the bumps looked like.  I call his dr.’s office and the nurse tells me that he does in fact have it.  Fortunately, he does not have the sores in his mouth yet (or if he does, they are not bothering him at all).  He does not have to stay out of daycare (thank goodness) unless he just feels too bad to go. 

The little man has hand-foot-mouth right now.  We noticed all these bumps on his hand on Tues nite.  Then noticed some on his feet.  They look like fire-ant bites, but they were alllllll over his hands.  So, I mentioned it to the daycare director, b/c if there are fire-ants in the playground, they need to know.  But no other parents have mentioned it.  The director said there was something called hand-foot-mouth disease, but she couldn’t remember what the bumps looked like.  I call his dr.’s office and the nurse tells me that he does in fact have it.  Fortunately, he does not have the sores in his mouth yet (or if he does, they are not bothering him at all).  He does not have to stay out of daycare (thank goodness) unless he just feels too bad to go.