Monday I forgot to lay anything out for dinner. The whole day was a ripper. My three year old had been sick for a few days fighting an ear infection. My 1 year old had seasonal allergies. I work from home. I'll leave my productivity level to your imagination.

DH gets home from work. Both my boys are done with homework. Older girls are doing homework at the table. Both babies are napping. I say to DH "I'm going to go to the grocery store one a few blocks away and I'm going to pick up dinner. Would you like fried chicken or Oriental Express from the deli?" All the kids chimed in with "Chinese food!!! Yay!" Except SD6, who crossed her arms and stuck he lip out and said "I don't WAAAAANT Chinese food. I WAAAAAANT chicken!" I said loud and clear "Okay, we're going to have to go with the popular vote, we're only getting one thing. So...Chinese food it is." End of story.

DH got in the deli line to get the Chinese food while I took a cart around the store to pick up the rest of the stuff we needed. Some 2 liter bottles of pop in kid flavors (something they only get as a treat, about like Chinese food) and a dessert from the bakery. Also got a watermelon to go with dinner.

I got home and was taking all the food out of the bag, and found a little bag of chicken strips and potatoes from the deli. DH went ahead and got SD6 the chicken anyway, even though she's got ODD and he knows this is just a control issue with her...mealtime always is. I didn't say a word. Not the hill I care to die on.

My DD9 is sensitive to food dye. The sodas I had chosen were raspberry, root beer, orange, and a ginger ale. DH asked everyone what kind of drink they wanted. They answered. DD9 asked for ginger ale. DH said "DD9, the ginger ale is for your sister who is sick, you'll have to have Raspberry." She said "I can't have that, dad, it's got food dye in it. It makes me sick, remember?" He looked right at me and said "I don't know why she can't just go with the flow for once." and started to hand her red soda. I said "Oh, probably because she sees you do "special precious" for SD6 all the time, so she really doesn't get why she should go with the flow, since that's obviously not the family mission statement here."

Dumbass. And then I poured her some Ginger Ale.