Today I got a call from school.   Ben was sick and I needed to pick him up.   My first thought that jumped into my mind was that he was faking.   He’s only a kindergartner for goodness sake!  My thought is that it’s only three weeks into school and it’s way too soon to not want to go to school.

 The bad mom moment came when I walked into the nurses office and said “Ben, if you are faking you are going to be in big trouble.”   The nurse actually told me that he had thrown up!   I then felt really bad that I had sent him to school sick.   But really I thought this morning he was being extremely difficult.   I had even told Mrs. Roberts that.  He’s just having a difficult morning.  

At school he wouldn’t do any work, he said he was sick and she sent him to the nurses office.   The nurse sent him back saying that he didn’t have a fever.   He still wouldn’t do school work so she put his name on the board.  After that he threw up in the class trash can.   I can at least take comfort in knowing my son knows how to throw up in trash cans, bowls and in the toilet.  He has great aim! 

We came home and he went straight to bed, my normal “Tiggeresque” child wanted to just lay down.  He didn’t even want to listen to music.    He slept for a good 3 hours and the rest of the day has just laid on the couch.  He’s only drank a little fluid and has kept nothing down. 

I told Ben that I was sorry that I didn’t believe him that he was sick.   I told him I was sorry that I had a bad attitude.   I told him that I was sorry that he was sick.   He said “That’s OK, Mommy, we all make mistakes.”   Yes son, we do, hopefully you will always be this forgiving as I make others.