SS10 got in trouble at school again today. His behavior had been so wonderful for so long, now this. I have no idea what happened or how to change it. But DH has established a day-to-day grounding system. If SS can't behave at school, he's grounded for a day. He's been grounded for quite a few days now. Today it was not getting along with kids on the play ground and distracting other students during class. Not major events in and of themselves, but the fact that it is an on going problem is frustrating.

So what is the wrong side of Wednesday? Well, it's when you look at the clock and realize that is a half hour into the next day and home work isn't done yet. This is not what I had planned.

SS had from 5pm to 7:30pm to work on homework, which consisted of seven vocab words, a spelling worksheet, and a math assignment. Oh yeah, and did I mention that his standardized test scores are the highest for his grade? The information is not overly difficult for him. But it just wasn't a good night, so we had dinner, he did his evening chores, and was in bed by 9pm. I figured the rest of the homework could wait for morning.

I stayed up to watch Criminal Minds, then I headed to bed. I'd taken a sleep aid with a glass of red wine was really looking forward to crawling under the covers, getting a good night's sleep and hitting the gym in the morning. So about 10:20pm I head up the stairs and find SS door closed. I open it to look in on him as I usually do when I head to bed. He was scrambling to get onto his bed and started mumbling something about needing to move his pillow. The funny thing is he always, always wakes up with terrible bed-head. Yet as he's mumbling at me I notice that his hair is pristine. He'd been up since sent to bed playing with his toys by the light of his closet.

So the good night's sleep flew right out the window. I figure if he wants to be up all night we'll certainly be up all night. So here we are, two hours later, and homework stil isn't done. It makes me so furious to think that not only has my night been derailed, but so has my day. When will this end?