Symptoms II

Cluster Headache Dietary Trials - Day 2

Wake up:
Ben tacks the remaining chocolate chip cookie in the baggie to his bulletin board and stares at it.

Breakfast:
Ben requests eggs, bacon, and plain toast.  While it is being prepared, I have Allie pass out honey crisp apples (which can only be purchased this time of year).  Ben crawls into Luke's attic "studio" to pass the word about the apple before breakfast.  Everyone else consumes the delicious pomme, though we are uncertain even now what has actually happened to Luke's - who will only laugh when questioned.

Devotions:
It is discovered that Allie has a pack of sour patch kids.  When she is distracted, Ben snatches the bag and stuffs a handful in his mouth. Screaming and wrestling ensue - after which Ben finds a lone sour patch on the floor and eats it.
Luke snickers amusedly from his bed, where he is popping handfuls of Charleston chews.

Lunch:
We run to the post office and to Mapco to get air in the truck tires. Ben smells Jo Jo potatoes on the wind.  He subtly inquires, "Can I have some Jo Jo potatoes?"  I buy him a diet Pepsi instead, but he informs me his favorite is regular wild cherry Pepsi.  I only stare.  He then sulks away to gaze at the candy aisle. As we are leaving Mapco Ben asks, "Can I have some Jo Jo potatoes?"  On the drive home, I discover Ben is eating a bag of grapes in the back seat.  At home again, he prepares a hoagie and a half - all the while complaining about the quality of the bread.
Allie has righteously requested tomato soup with water, not milk. Ben is aghast.

After lunch break:
I notice the chocolate chip cookie baggie has gone missing from the bulletin board.  Ben informs me he has just eaten it.

Writing period:
Ben writes another alarming story about a fussy farm animal who determines in his heart to get rid of the disappointing farmer.  There are always these dreadful sounds emitting from barns and all these farmers that are "never seen again".  Yesterday, Alex the sheep decided to "take care" of the farmer who didn't serve meals on time or adhere to the sheep's wish for water that was "precisely 20 degrees F".

Math period:
Ben peels and de-seeds a pomegranate (which you can only purchase this time of year) -Allen and the kids eat the jewel-like flesh from cereal bowls.  Today (and usually), Ben was eating his pomegranate by the handful.  Even while tattling on Allie, he was shoveling in portions from a precarious bowl.

It was today that Allen suggested we begin falsifying school records, and send the children out to work.

Mentally preparing for scout camp this weekend:
Ben announces he will be packing his entire Excedrin migraine bottle - along with a bag of candy.

1:18:
I open a fun size bag of skittles and lay the green, purple, and yellow ones on an end table.  Allie helps herself to a couple of yellow and green.  The rest disappear mysteriously - after which, Ben admits he ate them.

1:27:
Ben puts the t.v. clicker to his ear and pretends to order five cheese pizzas.

1:35:
Ben is caught eating a roll of smarties.  Three are sacrificed before he is stopped.

I spend the rest of the afternoon falsifying school records.

Dinner prep time:
Ben catches me eating a spoonful(s) of crunchy peanut butter while "cooking" dinner.  He helps himself to one, plus also, a tall glass of milk and a Claussen pickle.  He begins preparing his special honey mustard to dip his chicken in.

Dinner time:
Ben burns his finger retrieving a chicken leg from the pan, and hacks away at halving a chicken breast.  When I encourage him to just take the whole thing, he gasps insultedly that he is not some pig after all.  He returns later for another piece.

Allen refuses to eat the chicken, declaring I can't make him.  He leaves the room with a sad plate of mac and cheese and vinegar beans.  I say he should have a piece of meat on that plate; he says I can't make him.

Allie complains about the dried out mac and cheese, asking if I can ever make it creamy. She also inquires why we are having those beans again. I inform her there are peas as well, and the universe shifts back to its natural place.

Luke is away from home and will ultimately eat dinner with the Stanfield's where he is always delighted to eat Sabrina's cooking.

Book time:
Luke returns home and lords it over Ben and Allie that he has also eaten Bourbon chicken at the mall

 We later discover that Ben has eaten a bowl of Peanut Butter Captain Crunch after dinner.  He made no formal announcement except to leave a lone crunch on the floor beside the refrigerator.

 To be continued........