thought last evening was going to be better, Korey took his medicine, got dressed for bed, even laid down and appeared to be drifting off to sleep. boy was i wrong! around 10:30p he was up, repeating “raise my hand, go to the bathroom” to start with. ok, I reinforced quietly that was correct behavior, especially in school, to raise your hand if needing to go to bathroom or ask a question or request help. all of which he understands and went back to his room! for about 10 seconds, then he was back SCREAMING for the bus. well, quietly I repeated our little jingle for when the bus comes, that calmed him, I quietly, almost in a whisper, directed him back to his room and spoke to him  about need for sleep, the bus comes after he sleeps and he gets up in the morning… worked for about 1/2 hour then the screaming and carrying on started in earnest and continued until about 5a, when i finally just said to him that he had  eaten enough cereal, ice cream, grapes, bananas to last him a few weeks and my ears hurt from his yelling and screaming and not using his words and after he pushed me as he was so frustrated, i said for the hundredth time, if you don’t go to sleep even for 1 moment, the bus will not come and he will not go to the school.

sorry, i had to take a nap, yes, i am exhausted , anyway getting back to the morning saga, so he pondered that for a fleeting second, and i mean fleeting and started crying for medicine, and since he had all his meds for the night, evening whatever until AM meds, i said no and went to my bed thinking he would  go to his room and even just sit there, no-i hear him saying meds in a loud voice,  went back in the kitchen, saw he had an empty (thank goodness) meds bottle so i emptied any and all medicine bottles from any and all cabinets in any and all rooms he could possibly access! at this point i don’t even know where i put them but that at least means he doesn’t either!!!  i verrrry slowly quietly said Korey i am going to sleep you MUST if you want to go to school! he finally did lay down and fall asleep about 5:45a just as his sister got up to get ready for school! it lasted until 8:45 and he was up and ready to get to school on the bus in 3 layers of pajamas… so we unraveled the clothespole he was and quickly readied his backpack and got in the truck and raced to school, being only 1 hr 20 minutes late!! you should have seen the  SMILE on his face…