Most days are interesting in our house, some days we ease into things, some days they are interesting from the minute we get out of bed - like today. For some reason Alex decided to pretend his entire body was hurt and put band aids all over himself - arms, legs, feet, nose. He also wrapped an ace bandage around his head, one around each leg, a big one around his chest, and one around his wrist. He was moving so slowly, I guess pretending that it hurt to move, and brought one of our play doctor kits down stairs which he then emptied all over the family room. So at 6 a.m. he had trashed the bathroom, his room and part of the family room. Chaos overload for me before my first cup of coffee.

I asked him what made him play that this morning and he said he had watched something at school where someone had gotten hurt in a few places and he wanted to see what he would look like if he got hurt that much too. In the big picture, it kind of makes sense, in my little picture where I have 3 kids to get ready for the bus, drive my husband to work (our truck is in the shop) and make a Dr. appt. by 9:30, not so much sense.

I was talking to my friend Noelle yesterday who has a daughter with Downs in middle school, and after she spent her weekend and part of the week at the hospital with her daughter, she said, "there is never a dull moment, it's always something with our kids." And it is, good, bad, funny, not so funny, heartbreaking, but never dull..........