I listened

I listened to the still small voice today. Eddie, our foster son, Nick's best friend, a friend's son, has been on probation for a long time now. He AND his mother are facing jail time if he misses an assignment in school. He has a really hard time with executive function. He is severely ADHD, has some Asperger's & probably bipolar disorder on top of everything. He was held back a year in high school, so is a year behind others his age.

One of the hints that I was given when Nick was in high school was to get a zippered binder & organize it so that EVERYTHING goes in the binder, EVERYTHING.

I looked at Wal-Mart, even the simple binder like Nick has is $15 now. I've looked other places, like online, $45 on Flylady.net; $13 plus shipping & handling on another site. So, today at work, I walked out into the book store to see if there were any zippered binders. There weren't any. I knew I could order one, but decided I'd check at King's & see if they had any.

As I was leaving work I decided I'd stop at King's on my way home. "Check at the D.I.," kept niggling at the back of my mind. I'm thinking, "Ya, right. If you go into the D.I. looking for something, you never find it." I got out onto State Street & there was a perfect parking place right in front of the D.I. I thought that would work, I'd run into the D.I., check to see if they had a zippered binder, then could walk out the back door, across the parking lot to the back door of King's & out the front door to my car.

I never made it to King's. Almost immediately I found a zippered binder. It looked brand new, like it had never been used. The tags inside were still crisp. It was black with a big Jack Skellington face on the front. Ed loves skeletons. They are his signature. I see a skeleton & automatically think of Eddie. The binder was $2!!! Something like that would have been $19-29 new, if I could still find something like that around here.

Eddie loved it. I hope he uses it. I may have to get some dividers for him. But I'm so glad I listened.