Why oh WHY does he fight taking a bath?

Why is it J won't take a bath or shower? Yes, he's 9 years old. It is literally like trying to get a large dog into the bathroom (remember those AFV videos of the dog holding onto the sides of the door frame so he wouldn't have to go in the bathroom and get a bath?!)....only ONCE you get J IN the bathtub he's in there for at least an hour, or more. Does J just ENJOY the "battle" so to speak? As I type he's been in the bathtub about 40 minutes now. Just laying in there, spacing out, relaxing. Can't blame him for that...everyone needs some down time.

Ginny, on the other hand, LOVES taking a bath. And she splashes and gets so much water on the bathroom floor that when I mop up all the water my bathroom floor is freshly cleaned (again!).

And what the heck is it with boys missing the potty? Is this a little boy thing? Will he outgrow it? I can't tell you how many times I've sat down to potty and sat in his pee. :shudder: Almost as bad as sitting down and feeling that cold porcelain hitting your arse because you didn't check to see that the toilet seat was in the down position. LOL

I've got a book I want to finish today...Whitethorn Woods by Maeve Binchy. So far so good, not really a romance novel, but about all those lives surrounding a mystical St. Ann well and the road that could destroy it should it be built through that location.

Weighed in at 233 pounds even this AM. Breakfast? Meds and a tall glass of water. Still running short on groceries...not sure what J will eat for breakfast....but I think I can convince him it's time for some "teddy bear toast" (aka toast with a wee bit of butter and then the cinnamon/sugar mix in the little shaker we had when we were kids!).

Dh is working OT again today. Hopefully this'll mean two big paychecks...which we need to pay our bills as well as pay down some credit card debt. :shrug: Pay comes in, $ goes out. That's the way it goes here in the Wheeler Household. (though we're doing better than we have been in a long time!).

Gas is killing us....our Saturn VUE gets much better MPG than our Saturn wagon did, yet we're still dumping almost $50- a week into the gas tank. Dh said something about there being a new oil reserve found in Colorado that is supposedly bigger than the one in Saudi? I'll have to google it later and get the scoop for myself.

Have a great day!