I know, no blog posts. Not new...different SN. I just had a suspiscious feeling about the last name and thought it might give too much away and make it too easy if BM ever finds her way to this site...

That being said...I'll just pick up where I left off.

SS7 has been on "restriction" for...well...longer than I can even remember. Now, this basically just came down to us stripping his room. He had a bed and a dresser for a while. He lied to DCS. Three times. Because BM told him to. He admitted (while being recorded) that he lied. Because BM told him to. He also said that he knew that after the first and second time that it happened that we had the same discussion and that...oh yes, you guessed it...because BM told him to, he did it anyway because that's his mom and it's "the only mom he will ever have" so he "has" to listen to her...um...gag. Anyway. SS7...stripped room.

SS7 started taking his meds again yesterday. With much fight and argument from BM. We tried to do it her way for a month. We let him go to school every single day telling him to behave, do his work, focus, every day he would come home, terrible day at school, unable to sit still, unable to focus on teacher (or anything for that matter) etc, etc, etc...We tried her "vitamins" (she thinks that a multi, some folic acid, and a fish oil will help) we do that. With no results. Done. Go refill his prescription (that worked amazingly last year, no side effects, no withdrawls when not given on the weekends...) Tuesday. Wednesday he is a totally different child. Teacher wants to know whats up. Of course she knew already because FDH is in pretty constant contact. Today, meds, same thing. Coincidence? I think not. (Yes yes yes, some people don't agree with giving their children medicine. That's all fine and great and what works with YOUR family. I'd be willing to bet however that you don't have a child that is INCREDIBLY ADHD and comes by it genetically (FDH, FMIL, FBIL, FSIL just to name a few...) I completely agree with exhausting every avenue available to helping your children succeed in life. This works for us. If what works for you does, congratulations and I envy you.)

Anyway, so since I can apparently predict the future, I knew that SS7 was going to be good in school today. I just knew that he was going to bring home a 100% of his daily work and yada yada yada. So I put his room back together. I didn't tell him. I didn't mention it to him. Hell I didn't even think of doing it until I had went upstairs to get something out of the bonus room where all of his toys had been stashed and saw them. So I put his room back together. I pick him up from his after school care, I don't mention it. He tells me how great he was in school, he got candy from the counselor, he got 100%, he did all of his work blah blah blah. We get home and I'm getting everything out of their backpacks and I tell him, hey why don't you go to your room and look at it for me. He goes upstairs. Withing seconds he rushed back down the stairs, ran up to me and gave me the biggest, most sincere hug and said "i love you ASII". I literally wanted to melt with happiness. I mean...he could've just been like oh my gosh I have my toys back. But no. He KNEW who had done it for him and he recognized that I did it for him. Yep. Today's a good day in my world.

Now...if we could only figure out a way to get SD5 to...well...not be a 5 year old whiney bratty diva...

Until then...