High hopes for no more sick days...

Happy Mardi Gras! This week is packed with the lesser holiday's! Today Brian and I were off work and planning to concentrate on the flooring, go grocery shopping, go to work, watch some Olympics, all that good stuff. Both the kids were supposed to be at school until 4:00, so we thought we had a great long day ahead of us. That's what we thought... Then, too much food and too much drama caused puking, and with the puking came the side effect of attention. After a cleaned bed and some time wasted we thought it was over and our night would run into a free and happy day. Well, about an hour after bed time we heard Skyler say he wasn't tired and didn't want to lie down, probably thinking we would go in his room. We didn't even think about what it could all mean, and just said go back to bed. Read a book if you are not sleepy. Fast forward to this morning and a neat little pile of puke in the bottom corner of his bed. GRODIE! Anyway, he got out of bed, took a shower, brought his bedding to the wash, got dressed, all that stuff. Proceeded to jam a shit ton of food into his mouth and "puke" all over the floor. Wrestling with what the best lesson would be I decided to send him to bed "sick." He was hungry at noon, so he got soup. Then he was bored, so he was able to watch TV in bed. Then he was hungry again so he got chicken broth, bored, got a new movie in bed. But he was not allowed to get out of bed except for the bathroom, and if you know ADHD kids, being in a bed with nothing but a TV is not fun! It was time to do homework and I hear very loud forced gagging sounds. So, to that I said, "If you throw up, 2 things will happen, you will clean it up and you will do your homework. If you don't throw up one thing will happen, you will do your homework. It's your choice, I will see you later. " I went downstairs and after 20 minutes of crying and contemplating gagging all was quiet. 10 minutes later down he came with a full page about catching a bunny written! And tomorrow, you bet your booty he will want to go to school, if for no other reason than he will be super hungry! So, let's hope this is the end of the faking sick by puking! We caught on to the thermometer under super hot water early on, he is running out of sickness! Poor thing too, he has had legitimate sick days, but the more he fakes, the harder it is to tell what's what! He still has that cough from the pneumonia despite the medication, so I think a new trip to the doctor will be in order this week sometime. Fun times! Meanwhile, the bunny story was creative and cute, albeit misspelled and a grammatical nightmare, so I think we are on the right track today!

On a side note, I like that so many facebook folks are giving up complaining for lent, it's inspirational, 40 days of no bitching, but if I stopped complaining, what you you all read?

See you all tomorrow, in the land of the healthy 2-5 year olds!