Last night I was watching a friend’s son while she worked the midnight shift.
This morning she came over to pick her son up.
My husband and I watch her son so often, he has a toddler bed in our son’s nursery.

My son is 5 months old. My husband and I did his entire nursery in Winnie-the-Pooh. We both loved Pooh growing up, m nursery was Pooh when I was an infant, Pooh is a bright interesting color- it only seemed natural for us to do his room in Pooh. And ironically, his favorite toy is a stuffed Pooh, its the only one he’ll babble with, and the only one he cries if you try to take away from him.

Her son is 3 years old and obcessed with Mickey Mouse.
I do not personally like Mickey Mouse, not because of Mickey himself, but because my ex (who was both sexually and phyiscally abusive) had a vintage Mickey collection. So now whenever I see Mickey, I think of him and its almost like reliving that trauma again.

My friend knows why I hate Mickey and she knows why I love Pooh
yet she went out of her way to make sure everything that her son needed to spend the night was Mickey Mouse: the sheets for the toddler bed, the pillow, the stuffed animal he slept with, the shirt he changed into in the morning.

Which is all fine, he loves Mickey, its only natural to surround him with what he likes.
But then she did something that really pushed my buttons:
when she came to pick her son up, she took her son’s stuffed Mickey Mouse and pushed it into my son’s face, my son grabbed Mickey’s leg and pulled the toy down from his face
then she says "aww, he loves Mickey more than Pooh!"

This action was apart of a pattern of disrespectful behavior
(see question I posted yesterday: )
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aqr8hHswDKHQUtBNV4p29Jrsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20090729081244AAjN5lH

I don’t want to make a big issue out of this, however I can shake my upset feeling.
How can I get past her continuous rude behavior?
(Especially when I don’t think she realizes what she is doing.)