In-Home Separation, One Year Point

[adinva]

It turned out to be a difficult night. They wanted to walk to the store nearby for snacks and wound up at a girl's house instead. They were 20 minutes later than the time I told them to be walking in the front door, so I was headed out in my van to find them when they arrived home. They were goofing around at 1:30 when one of them had a big soccer game in the morning and said he'd be asleep by 12:30. At 4:30 S12 came into my room and woke me to tell me a bunch of them were in his room and told him they peed on him, and he had a big wet spot on his shirt and pants. I went down to talk to S14 and there was just one kid down there and he didn't know where the others were. Great. After checking and locking all the outside doors, I heard them giggling in the work area of the basement and went back down. There ensued discussion, explanations, denials, showers.

H rolled in and back out around 9, but right before he left he heard from S12, and went down and screamed at the boys to wake up and tell him what happened. "Nothing. We didn't do anything" they said. So, H told me no more sleepovers for S14 until he tells exactly what happened. S12 has a track record of peeing at night so their story has some validity, but their being in his room at all was obviously wrong and if they weren't there they wouldn't be in any trouble.

I suspect S14 will stick by his story since almost anything else he might say will make things worse for him. I think they were pranking one of the other 14yos (the one who was supposed to be asleep for soccer) and decided to prank S12 too. Maybe they poured water from a bottle on him. We don't know.

Nice way to start the summer off. Also I'm very tired today and grumpy. Will need to get some catchup sleep.