I have been criticised in the past for having my boys take a bath EVERY night! All I can say is if your boys looked like this would you let them crawl into the fresh clean sheets you just washed? Not I! Not I! I had already taken a wipey to their faces by this point, but after an afternoon of stripping scrap copper to recycle and changing a flat tire there is no way they are skipping a bath tonight! Poor Daniel put up a fight when it was time to do his homework and has spent the rest of the evening on his bed with dirty tear streaks cutting through the gunk on his face. He will be let down to have a bath as well!

Discrimination

I have never personally experienced discrimination for any reason, until yesterday. I took Jaxon to an in home preschool recommended to me by a woman at church. It is not licensed, but came highly recommended. After talking with the woman about her program, experience, and the curriculum I decided it would be a good fit for Jaxon. Yesterday was his first day. He was shy at first but by the end of the two hour class was super excited to come again. Of course I talked with the woman about Jaxon's EE and provided all of his emergency information before I left. A few hours after preschool was over she called me very concerned about Jaxon's EE and said flat out "If I knew about his condition before you came I would have told you not to bring him." Of course my mommy instincts kick in and I became defensive, but agreed to talk over the situation with Johnny and she was going to discuss it with her husband. Johnny and I agreed not to take Jaxon back, but then this morning all Jaxon could talk about was his new preschool and the field trips they were going to go on to the County Fair and the Pumpkin Patch. It broke my heart. The Preschool Lady called again this afternoon to say she would like to have Jaxon come if I would sign a liability waiver in case anything happened while he was in her care. Ummmm, no!

At first I was upset and offended. Mostly I'm sad for Jaxon and how upset he will be when we don't go back. It is not like my kids have a very stable life traveling around with Johnny for work, but now he is jumping around preschools and I'm not going to tell him she didn't want him there because of his "condition." Maybe I was naive thinking this would never happen. Not any more. In the future I will be more prepared to protect my son.