Who's Really The Boss?

It's pretty much common knowledge that my child absolutely detests getting in her car seat.  She stiffens up, won't bend, screams, and twists to avoid being strapped in.  I have just tried waiting it out in hopes that she will give up and agree to getting in it.  That doesn't happen often.  About the only time she will let me put her in is the very first time of the day.  Any kind of "in and out" of the car seat trips usually end up in her screaming and me sweating and gasping for air.

Anyway, Jason and I were running errands the other day with Elise in tow.  Thus, having to do the in and out, in and out.  It was all beginning to be too much for me, so at our last stop I said,

"do you just wanna sit in here with her and I'll run in and if I need you I'll come back out?"

"well, I guess I can.  We can just go in with you."

"But she has a total cow when you have to put her back in her car seat, so I thought we could avoid all that."

Then he said these words.  Words that gave me quite a chuckle.

"Well, she doesn't run our life."

Ummm.  Correction there Jason.....

I then went on to point out,

"What do you mean she doesn't run our life?!  In case you forgot, I have eaten my dinner in the bathroom on the toilet a number of times while she was playing in the bath tub."

"I sat in there and ate my dinner too!"

"Yeah, but only once!"

It's true.  Jason grilled steak one night and I was giving Elise a bath, so he brought my wine and plate to me in the bathroom.  I then sat on the toilet and ate it.  He even joined me.  Then when Elise was done in the bath and I took her to her room to get dressed, he took his plate and beer in there and ate in the glider.  It was all so romantic.

But, like I said....  He's only eaten in the bathroom once.  I have done it quite a few times.

And, now look what our lives have come to.  Me standing outside the truck in a parking lot bickering with him about who has had to eat more meals in the bathroom on the toilet.

Because "she doesn't run our life."

Well, I hate to state the obvious, but I wasn't eating in the bathroom for my health.