The Puddles

First off, Ben got a stomach bug.  This bug got him good.  It was so bad that he slept on the couch and I slept on the lazyboy. He was thrashing around so badly from the stomach pains that we couldn’t even have him sleep in our bed and I refused to sleep on the floor of his bedroom.  So the compromise was the living room.  Ben’s pains were such that it was really happening in the evening, night, and early morning.  When the sun was out, he did better.

Ben has been working on his presentation at the family party for weeks.  He was so excited to share the poem that he had written.  But then he got sick . . . We told him that as long as he was fever/vomit free for 24 hours that he could go.  We thought we were in the clear and then early the morning of the party . . . he got sick . . . again.  Poor guy.  I emailed the teachers and let them know we weren’t coming.  They emailed back and said if he wanted to come after all of the kids had gone in order to share what he worked on that was ok with them.  After much thought . . . we said yes.  I picked up Madie from school.  Grabbed Ainsley from her class and all five of us came to Ben’s Family Party.  It was great.  Ben did such a wonderful job.  He was so proud and he had a reason to be.  He put together a slide show with voice over.  He wrote a poem about his mom (it is going on the wall of my office!).  He was so proud of it all.  We were glad we went.