Faking Sick

Thing 2 and Thing 3 are faking sick today.

Granted they woke up with stuffy noses that were so bad it made MY head pound and I had no more allergy medicine in the house. Which clearly meant they were going to die.

I knew that once they got their allergy meds in them they would feel more than fine, but I didn't feel like listening to them moan and groan all morning so I made them sign a contract.  My thinking was that it would scare them into going to school.  Threats of no friends after school and a days worth of hard cleaning can do that.

It didn't work.

I had them write on a piece of paper "I know that if I stay home from school I will not be able to play with my friends after school.  If I pitch a fit after school when my friends all come over to see if I can play, then I have to stay in my room the rest of the night. If I don't do the chores Mom asks me to do, or I whine and complain then I'm in my room for the rest of the day."

Then they signed their names, dated it and it's hanging up on our fridge.

My house is now clean and the laundry is folded and put away. And, it's barely 1pm.

I had to come up with more stuff for them to do so that staying home isn't fun. Or desirable.  

So I pulled out the big guns: The Play Room that looks worse than Hiroshima.

 Having "sick" kids totally rocks.