Home Sick!!

Jake is home sick today! His first absence of the school year. He came into my room at 4 a.m. so I knew it wasn’t going to be a great morning for him. He has an ear ache and slight fever, but he wasn’t happy as I ran through the rules of the day.

They are:

#1–Back to bed! He wanted to stay up reading–ha–nope, sick people sleep.

#2–No PS2 today! Of course, they only get Playstation on Saturdays–so that wasn’t a surprise.

#3–No playing outside after school! Just because the school day ended doesn’t mean you magically feel better.

#4–No Cub Scouts tonight. Same reason as number 3. Plus tonight would be his first time in his new pack–and it’s Pack Meeting. I don’t need a sick kid running around the gym whooping and hollering!

Honestly–number four is good–but I mainly just through it in as the deal breaker! If he were faking it–he would have gone to school just to keep number 4! Depending on Mom’s mood–I may not make him skip Scouts. He’s so close to finishing his Bear–so we may bite the bullet. And unlike the last house– where Scouts was 45 minutes away on a school night-this one is only 5 minutes away! Some how, that makes it so much easier to miss bedtime!