Geek in Training: The Schedule Edition

I have a lot of blog posts in the pipes about Bode these days. The reason? Pumpkin season is over so I can’t mock Jamie, Hadley has been pretty low-key juggling volleyball and school but that boy-man Bode makes me laugh. Constantly. The funny thing is he isn’t trying to be funny; he’s just being himself. But his big, bad self is a 50-year-old dude wrapped up in a 7-year-old package.

Case in point: he got a cold last week. Before bedtime, Jamie gave him some cough medicine and a few minutes later, Bode came into my room and whacked my bed.

“What do you need?”
“NOBODY TUCKED ME IN.”

I’ll be the first to admit that sometimes I don’t want to drag myself out of my warm bed but their childhood is fleeting so I always do it and never regret saying prayers with them and their bedtime kisses.

After I tucked him in, he was hacking away and I informed him I was going to let him sleep in and when he woke up we’d determine if he was well enough to go to school. A few minutes after I tucked him in, he summoned me back to his room.

“I have figured out my schedule for tomorrow.”

“Your schedule?”

“Yes. At 8:15 a.m. I will do my spelling test and then at 8:30 a.m. we will do reading. Next is a 5-minute break and we will start math.”

And you know what? He stayed home sick and stuck to his schedule. Heaven forbid he should miss a day of school.

I’ve got a newsflash to my little geek in training: Just watch TV, Dude.

XO

Your Mom
She Who Cherished Every Sick Day Home From School

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