Truly, I'm so thankful God gave me a love for food, cooking, and feeding people. Otherwise, I think I'd want to throw in the towel over here.
Right now we're trying to keep eight small (and growing) bellies full and
it's felt a bit overwhelming. (We feed a lot of adults too, but we are all much easier 😉) Auggie is finally learning to chew, but it's almost a full time job helping him eat enough solids as we try to wean him from Pediasure. I wish I was exaggerating. Another of our kids needs a lot of help getting bites into his mouth and two of our kids fight us (trauma-based control struggles) at almost every meal.
We will survive. Every bit of progress is praiseworthy. Foods that helps us get through:
As a fun little aside, Auggie ate several bites of my meatloaf Tuesday evening. Why that was a success for him, I have no idea. Whether he'll want it tomorrow is also up for debate. But it was so thrilling to see him carefully chew bite after tiny bite of meatloaf.
:)