New School Year... Same Craziness

So excited today at lunch to go pick up cases of wine...

Why do my husband and I need cases of wine, you ask?

HAH!

I get a call as I am getting into the car to go pick up said cases of wine. Kiddo, 5th day of 5th grade. Just came in from Recess, and is in the nurses office. School nurse (who is an angel I am pretty sure) calls to say kiddo just came in from the basketball court at recess, he is pretty sweaty and is complaining that his stomach hurts... O.o. Do I want to talk to him??? NO... I mean yes, put him on.

Me: Hi kiddo whats up?
Kiddo: My stomach hurts....
Me: how bad does it hurt?
Kiddo: pretty bad....

Now school nurse told me she took his temp twice... once when he came in and then another once he had cooled down... he went from 99 to normal.

Me: Kiddo, if we come get you then you will be "sick" all weekend. there wont be any playing with friends. Are you ok with that??
Kiddo: I don't know...
Me: Well does your stomach feel better than when you came in at first or is it the same or worse?
Kiddo: its worse.
Daddy: Tell him to cool down, drink water and eat lunch. He played too hard... hes cramping.
Kiddo: Ok...
School Nurse: sounds like a plan.

This year started out the same as ALLL the other years... ROUGH. Kiddo is having a hard time transitioning out of summer mode. Back to learning new concepts. Back to trying. Back to paying attention and focusing on something more than 1 minute 30 second YouTube videos about Minecraft and making crafts, and fidget spinners, and water bottle flipping (wtf?!).

Since the first day of school the notes that have come home have been increasingly familiar. "Rolling eyes" "Refusing to work" "Wont pay attention"... Hello deja vu, been here before. I will include those notes when I have them they are in his behavioral folder at school right now. I think I will make a separate blog post with the first week of notes in them.

I have another whole post in me about "Refusal".

But this post is about wine! no whine.... i mean wine! ummmm.

So this afternoon I get a message from Kiddos teacher that he is having a much better day... YAAAAY! OMG! Hallelujah!

It seems to take him about a week to get back into the groove. I go through a whole range of emotions every year. From anger at the behavior to then reminding myself of the situation. I have to remind myself every year. Just like I have to remind them. every year. You look at him and you see "normal kid" But hes not. He is this amazing miracle with heart and attitude, that is missing an ENTIRE part of his brain. He has likes and dislikes just like you and me. He has attitude JUST LIKE ME (says his dad *snicker*). He loves music, science, and riding his bike, and Legos and Minecraft. He hates reading, and math. And it takes him just a little bit longer to process things that we do in a split instant.

He is starting to realize the difference between himself and others. Last year he told me he was uncomfortable in class because he saw that other kids finished their work quickly while he struggled. He could see them finishing their papers and he couldn't concentrate. We talked to him about all of it. I think it went over his head. But he got the amended version of his condition.

I am so glad he was able to get through his day. I know it was hard. He was hoping I would come swooping in and take him home and lay him on the couch for a few hours with the tv. and then he would miraculously feel better and have a fun weekend playing with his friends, having gotten out of afternoon school work. Instead he got through the day and now he can come home and really have a great weekend.

5th grade. Its not for the faint of heart. Thank goodness for whine... no, I mean wine!