On Teig's second day of kindergarten I got a call from the office. Gretchen told me that Teig did not have a fever but he said he was not feeling well and wanted to come home. In his tiny voice, he told me that he felt like he had needles in his neck from the inside. I said, "your throat hurts honey?" He said, "yes, can I come home?" I told him that I could come and be in his classroom with him for the last hour of school and that we could find him a nice place to rest in the classroom while I read him a book or something. He thought about that for a minute and then said, "so I can't come home?" I said, "sorry kiddo, you're in kindergarten now and you need to stay until class is over. Then I asked again if he wanted me to come in and hang out with him. He said, "fine, I'll just go back to class."
On the fourth day of school (Friday) Joren was exhausted. He came downstairs yelling at everyone and crying. He's never like that. I helped him get breakfast and carried/ drug him to school. He told me the whole way that he was not going to school. I took him into the assembly. As I dropped off Teig, Joren went to hide in the hall. I found Joren's teacher and told her the situation. She found him and told him to come to class when he was ready. Instead, he walked home. It caused quite a stir at the school with search parties looking for him within 10 minutes. By the time he was home and I had put him to bed, the school was calling me. We had a 30 minute talk with the principle and school counselor that afternoon. So, we did not make it through the first week without visiting the principle! We are off too a good start!
