It's a long story that I'm not going into about how and why, but just know that Sarah has to take Miralax daily. I'm not asking for your opinion because we've seen and have multiple doctors following her progress, it's just important for this story for you to know that she takes it.
Every. Single. Day.
Due to the dry climate of Colorado, her current doctor wants her to drink 30-40 ounces of liquid a day and at least 12 ounces of liquid when she consumes the Miralax. It comes in a powder form, so we mix it into her somewhat clear drink of choice, which happens to be yellow Gatorade at the moment, and then she has to drink it all in one sitting. I don't know how familiar you are with little kids, or at least my little kids, but it is difficult for them to drink that much liquid at one time. Or in one day. I gave Andy an 8 oz glass of milk for dinner tonight and he asked me to not give him so much milk at one time. Really? I know 3 yr olds who can drink more than that, just none of them came out of my body.
So, it's a huge stretch for Sarah to drink her Gatorade everyday. She dawdles, we pester, she ignores us, and without fail she spills the entire thing on the floor at least once a week. I am not joking. I don't know what she does, but she spills way more than an almost seven yr old should. The last time it happened, about a week ago, I completely lost it. I screamed and yelled and upset everybody, but I am so sick of cleaning Gatorade off the floor and walking in a sticky mess that I could not stop myself.
At that point I knew we needed a change. So I found this big insulated cup that I bought a very long time ago when I was in the car all the time and I wanted to drink more water. My friend, Ellie, said she had one and it was amazing. It kept her water cool, came with it's own straw, and had a screw on cap so that nothing would spill out. I dug it out of the cupboard, filled it not only with the 12 ounces of required Gatorade but a few more for good measure, mixed in the powder and screwed on the cap. Wonderful. No issues, drank it right down, yay new cup.
Until today. I wasn't actually watching so I don't know exactly how it happened, but Sarah was goofing off as usually during dinner and wasn't sitting properly in her seat. That's how we say it, "Sit properly!". All of a sudden her cup was knocked over, the lid was off and there was, once again, Gatorade all over the floor. But this time I took a new approach. I wasn't going to clean it up anymore. I wasn't the one being careless and silly, she was. So I made her clean it up. Amazingly, after all the times that she has spilled and I have had to clean up her mess, she had no idea where we keep the towels. She does now. She cleaned up the whole thing, and complained the entire time. All the while I sat there and told her I knew it wasn't fun and was sticky and was wet, because I'd done it already about 100 times.
In the end she wasn't very happy, but I was. Hopefully now she will be a little more careful when she's drinking a big glass of liquid. If not, she'll spend a little more time on the floor so she can figure it out.
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