the plan...

for today:

1. Bake a cake for Nic (Funfetti with rainbow chip frosting)
1a. Hope Jonah does not get up in the middle of the night and eat said cake tonight.
2. Homemade baked mac and cheese with and without sausage.
3. Bring mac and cheese over to Arthur's house so he and Beth don't have to cook and can concentrate on the baby.
4. Convince Nic to go to the laundrymat so all our laundry is clean at the same time, instead of doing one load at a time. (I'll fold it all, but I can't carry it :( )
5. Think about and plan dinners for the rest of the week and delegate which nights I'll cook and which nights Nic will cook.
6. Think about what the next step is with Jonah, and have a written plan for the Psychiatrist for tomorrow. He's hurting himself again (picking scabs until they bleed and biting himself), and the midnight food raids are getting ridiculous. I am so sad. Sad, because even a doctor with years of experience with child psychiatry has never seen a kid with this compulsive food issue that only manifests at night. I hate medicating him, but I know it's for his own good. The mantra I keep repeating is "I wouldn't withhold medication for asthma, why would I not give him medicine for his mental health issues." But even then, it's not diminishing his "need to feed". It's really a bummer when you don't know what to do to help a kid that can't help himself. I love him so much, and every day I wake to find a mess, and a kid that's sad cuz he knows that what he's done isn't normal. All I can hope is to help him find some peace.