Derek gets the Silver Spoon Moment while.....

Mommy gets the Golden Arches!!! I know most will have a good laugh and so will Seth someday...however Mommy was not laughing yesterday!

Yesterday, Seth and I went to have him tested for an ESL (English as a Second Language) program at at one of the schools in our city. He was very good, the teacher was most impressed with him and his abilities. Being the Mom that I am, I wanted to reward the good behavior so I decided to take Seth to McDonald's for lunch and then let him play in the play place with a few other kids....as he misses having someone to play with all day...

Well, he ate his lunch and all was well, so off to play he goes.....he is playing and there is only one other little boy in the entire play area but he was not able to go up the slides as he had CP(not a good scapegoat)...I place a quick call to Daddy to let him know what a great day we are having and how great Seth has been!! We have had some rough days so this was a huge accomplishment!! Then I realize that Seth does not come down for a bit, so I start calling his name.......next thing I know, there are drips falling from the space ship that is attached to the ceiling. Oh, yes!!! So, I attempt in my head to give my son the benefit of the doubt......maybe some kid brought a drink up there and Seth has spilled it!! Yes, that's it!! So I go over to the dripping to see if by chance the air conditioning is leaking or maybe it is Orange Hi-C........oh no, it is clear to light yellow, ok maybe it is lemonade.....not so much!!! So, I call Seth down and he comes and I proceed to ask him if he went pee pee in the space ship?? He says no with a smile on his sweet "innocent" face and so I ask him again and he says yes, yes pee pee, yes!! The story goes down hill from here as we then had to tell the manager, close the play place and proceed to leave with my screaming, kicking 6 year old!! Trying to carry him, I pulled something in my back and had instant pain in my head and behind my left eye.....oh yes, it was a great day!!

Needless to say The Golden Arches really are Golden!! My perspective today is much different than what is was yesterday. There is much grace as Seth grew up in a country where you just stop and pee where ever you are....however, he does know that we use toilets and has used one in every store/restaurant we have been in both here and in Mongolia. The worst part is that we had to go for shots a couple of hours later and he needed 4 shots and a TB test in order to attend school on Thursday!! As he left the health clinic with bandaids covering his body,the poor kid was probably thinking, I am never gonna pee in the spaceship again!!

Keep those prayers coming, we are trusting Gods grace to be sufficient!!
Love,
Stacy