What's that Mommy?

[SandyNJ]

Last weekend I took my son on an airplane for the first time. He is 7 1/2 years old and has been diagnosed with ADHD for past two years. We had to get up at 6 am for our flight home. I made sure my son took his medicine and I kept wondering when it was going to kick in. So we are on a very long line for the security check point and I am holding the same bottled water from this morning in my hand. My son asks, "What's that Mommy?" pointing to the water bottle. Low and behold his medicine from this morning was floating around in the bottle. Palm to the forehead. Mom fail. In my sleepiness I didn't bother pouring the water in a cup. Long story short we made it home safely.

I kept him busy playing tic tac toe while on the plane and only had to remind him a few times to put his hands down or to stop kicking his feet. We managed to pick up the dogs, go food shopping before the day ended with one big bad melt down at bed time. The type where no matter what you did that he wanted you to do it would never solve the problem he would just find something else to cry about.

I was worried that he would have a hard time at aftercare the next day so I left work early to pick him up. Low and behold he was more focused than when we increased his medicine the week before we went on vacation. He actually got homework done with assistance at aftercare and I helped him with some as well at home. For me that was huge.