Eden has been home with vague "feeling sick"ness for two days. Paul and I think it's stress. She's in third grade, and the principal says that this is a big year for kids "being really mean to each other." There's a group of kids that are in a club at recess, and from what I can tell it's basically the mean girl's club. Rosie, Eden's former best friend, told her she was on the waiting list for the club. Eden told her she didn't really like how the girls in the club treated her so that was okay with her. Yesterday Eden told me she was 'in between friends.'

I've ordered some library books about raising girls and the 'highly sensitive' child. I know one big piece of advice is to have kids join a club outside of school (girl scouts, church school, etc) so they have another playgroup that might treat them more kindly.  Eden gets overstimulated easily though, and really just needs to come home and chill after school, not run off to an after school activity. Aside from booking some playdates with other-than-Rosie-pals, I'm not sure how to proceed...

...and of course, even though my child is stressed to the point of stomach aches, I'm still narcissistically frustrated that I've been home bound and unable to work for two days. Remember  back when I had two-kids-two-years-and-under and I never even got out of my slippers for days a time? Yeah. I hated that. Now I go nutso after just two days of houseshoes!