Wednesday, September 17, 2014

The good times don't always last though...although this is why I want to be home with my kids

This morning was pretty much the exact opposite of our family fun last evening.  Things went relatively well with Catherine & Robert getting out the door, but Thomas was another story.  I am not at all convinced that he is feeling 100%.  He was laying down on the couch this morning, which is never a good sign.  He even admitted he was sleepy (which is a RARE admission) but insisted he was feeling fine.  Right before we were to walk out to the bus though, he had an absolute meltdown.  I informed him we weren't walking to the bus until he could pull himself together, because I truly didn't understand his reaction...I hadn't been yelling, and he should expect I would be irritated when learning he didn't do his vocabulary homework last week.  He just couldn't pull himself together though, and then when the bus drove by and he realized he wasn't going to be on it, he really fell apart.  I again explained I wasn't going to take him to school until he could pull himself together, and that child cried for an hour.  At one point I even sat down on the couch and held him for about 15 minutes, and even then, he couldn't quite pull himself together.  Nothing hurts though, he certainly isn't running a fever, and there is no cough/congestion, so I certainly hope it is nothing more than being overly tired.  We have nothing on our calendar this evening, and I've already told him an early bedtime should help him to get a good night's sleep.

Sitting there, though, this is why I want to be home with my kids.  Something was going on with Thomas this morning, and I don't know exactly what.  It seems as though he just needed to cry for a little bit.  I am so grateful that we could just sit this morning, and just be.  If I had a job, or even if I was subbing and today happened to be a day I was in, that wouldn't have been an option.  As it was, I was able to give him some extra time, and I'm so grateful for that.  I literally have no idea how we will make it all work out without me working, but families do it all the time.  Hoping, hoping, hoping, I can figure out a way to be one of those families!

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