Unbreak my heart...

ORIGINAL (ATTEMPTED) to post on Tuesday, Feb 22... thanks to Magic 'Manda, she pointed out things were saving to draft instead of publishing... a few days late).

Yesterday, we held our rescheduled "Fun Friday" to "Fun Monday" to accomodate some of the participants naughty behavior.  It wasn't my kids on Friday, but I was tempted to can Fun Monday for the same reason yesterday.

Our craft of the day ended up being stretchy cord necklace kits that sell for $1 a piece at Michaels.  We were able to find something all the girls would love and all the boys.  The girls made purple, flowery peace necklaces.  The boys made red, white and blue peace necklaces.  Sean, as usual, did not want to make his, but he wanted to wear it.  I wasn't surprised.  Crafting isn't  really Sean's cup of tea.  He asked if I would make his for him.  Since it was a 20 minute craft for the kids, it took me 2 minutes to string and tie off the stretchy cord.

When Sammie was headed out the door at the end of Fun Monday to sleep over at the neighbors, because of Sean's 8 am EEG scheduled in Ann Arbor, Sean suddenly got really emotional.  At first I thought he was upset that Sammie was getting a weeknight sleepover.  Instead he had just told Steve that Mommy had made his necklace for me. Sean jumped off the floor, hugged me and said, "I like it so much Mommy.  You made it for me and it reminds me that you're always with me."  MELT MY HEART.

Today, during his EEG, he would periodically reach up and touch his necklace.  When he did, his feet stopped wiggling and he settled down.  If he wanted to give me a hug or hold my hand during his EEG and this was the way he could get around not being able to jump out of his chair.

Imagine his dismay when I pointed out tonight at bedtime that he could not wear it to school.  He got all teary-eyed and was quite upset wanting to know why.  It's St Mary's policy that all jewelry must be religious in nature-- so cross necklace is okay, giant wooden peace sign, not so much.  [Though, I could probably make a strong argument why it would be okay... but I'm not willing to make a federal case out of it].  So I offered to make him a necklace he could wear in school.

Are you kidding me?! With all the supplies I have, all I could find was a cheap little celtic style cross that I bought at Wal-Mart when I first started beading.  Goodness, gracious.  I really want a small wooden cross!  So here I sit, blog-plaining (that blogging and whining), and trying to figure out how to make this work. So it's red, white and blue, includes a cross and is kid-friendly/safe.  Oh boy...

It just kinda broke my heart when he proclaimed, "If I can't wear my necklace, you can't make me go to school.  Nu-uh, I'm not going!"  My indulgent side wanted to say, I'll talk to your teacher... but we were told by the neurologist today to treat him like a normal kid-- no special rules (especially since the ways he's special have nothing to do with scaring the crap out of us 10 days ago!).  I'm glad he started to smile and wipe his tears when I said, "Sean, I'll make you something dress-code appropriate"

But don't think I won't be on the look out for  a nice little wooden cross, instead of a cheap base-metal cross.  I'd rather he have a natural material on his skin, not nickel!