Sherida called me today to let me know that she felt guilty. I answered the typical, "Ohhhh-kay".
To give a quick background, poor Haley had a bad Strep infection a couple weeks ago. The side effect has been that it hurts her to have a bowel movement. And since not going at all can prevent pain, it was an honest choice by young Haley Shea. The problem is that after 4-5 days of not going she gets real cranky, screams and cries, and doesn't have the same zest for life. If I didn't go for 5 days, I'd be pissed. This has been happening for about 2 weeks now and we need to break the spell.
We all had lunch together today, and it was nice. Haley was not feeling well and we knew why. So I get this message from Sherida this afternoon saying that she feels guilty for what she's done to Haley…just a little bit. Sherida called Haley over this afternoon and said, "you've been a good girl today so I want to give you some chocolate."
"Yey! Thanks Mommy!!!! I get some chocolate, I get some chocolate", she chants like she's taunting Sammy or something. Sam's probably looking at her like, dude, make sure that's chocolate…look at mom's face right now.
It wasn't chocolate at all…it was Ex-Lax as you might imagine…all the while Haley thinks she's getting a real treat…and in a roundabout way I guess she is.
About 15 minutes later, she gets up from playing with her dolls and runs upstairs grabbing fanny and making hectic groan sounds. Sherida listens as Haley quietly departs with what seems like 10 pounds of her own body weight.
"MOM!!! I made a HUGE poop!"
"That's great honey!" I wonder how that happened? Sherida goes up there to help her and she literally dropped a megaton bomb. I don't know how she was even getting around.
Haley's stoked and says, "Oh man I feel so much better……but it sure is hot in here."
Sherida then lets me know that she feels guilty for tricking a girl into taking ex lax, but I think that's a good mom story...there's a reason ex lax tastes like chocolate and not like cod liver oil.
