Really?

I know I have said this before, but raising kids has got to be the most challenging thing I have ever done. The day to day challenges they put before me is just exhausting! I took the girls, and the three dogs, on a walk to the river today. Lucy and Ava did fine, Daisy and Bailey did fine, Piper was a pain and I have decided that from now on she will stay at home. (I had to pull her along almost the whole time). Then in the background is Madeline... whining almost every step of the way. She complains that she doesn't get to do anything "fun" with us, then we go do something that she was really excited to do and she complains!?!? I don't get it? We walked sloooowwww the whole time, yet she just wasn't happy.
Ughhh... then I made lunch for the girls. Maddie used to be a GREAT eater. Now she is one of the pickiest eaters ever! She is always complaining that she doesn't like something in her meal for one reason or another. And just today, I found out the she throws her sandwich away at school nearly every day! Why do I even go through the trouble of making her a healthy lunch? I am perplexed as to what I should do now... Do I give in and not make her a sandwich? If I gave her her choice she would have chips, chocolate, fruit snacks and nasty cafeteria school pizza. Well, I can tell you that that is not happening. I do balance her lunch out. A sandwich, fruit, chips, and a treat of some sort. I have enough on my plate every morning getting the kids out the door to worry about her throwing her lunch away! No wonder she is so hungry when she comes home from school every day. Oh the joys of figuring out what to do......