"The Sickness" Has Invaded Our Home
Well, I woke up this morning with the best intentions. I was going to make my kids a good hot breakfast - pancakes and waffles. I was going to get a lot accomplished because my children are both off from school today so I won't have the running around related to school to do. I still have laundry to do, we have appointments to get hair cuts and I have to go to the grocery for some supplies. We were going to have a good day, full of stuff to do to keep the animals occupied and minimize fighting.
My oldest was complaining that his stomach hurt. I told him he was probably just hungry, gave him a banana and went about making the pancake batter. I gave him a waffle when it was ready and he was doubled over, moaning. I told him to eat up, thought he was being dramatic. Ten minutes later he was in the bathroom with "The Sickness" coming out of both ends.
I should consider myself lucky because my children don't get sick very often. They are really healthy and we have only had to deal with a stomach virus twice in my oldest's almost seven years. That being said, when it does happen, you might as well throw that day down the toilet with the sickness! Now my kitchen is a mess from the pancakes, and instead of getting it cleaned up, I had to do a hundred other jobs that go along with "The Sickness". Such as: cleaning the toilet and floor where "The Sickness" happened, creating a "safe zone" on the couch for the sickly one to lay, and general sympathy and consoling, which I gladly do but which takes up a generous amount of time. In addition, I had to strip the beds and wash all the stuffed animals that were in them. (We let the boys sleep together last night, so it is a guarantee that the middle child will get "The Sickness" as well, probably within the next 12 hours or so.) In between all of these things, I have had to tend to, feed, diaper and nap a baby, and take care of the almost four year old's needs with toys that won't work, movies he wants to watch, etc.
Because we don't get "The Sickness" very often, my house is not prepared for it. I have no ginger ale, Gatorade or Pedialyte. Bland foods are easy, especially when you have the variety of allergies in a household that we do. But the only juices I have are apple and white grape, neither of which will do anything to help "The Sickness" that is coming out of a certain end of my son! One of my best girlfriends goes through "The Sickness" often enough that she has become my expert on the subject. I know from her that water is no good to a sick belly. So what am I to give my son to drink?
I will figure it out, of course, and we will get through this day (and the next if the middle child gets it). But nothing will be accomplished, and I will start this long weekend in a deficit, yet again. I never have to wonder why I can never get ahead! When you have children you always have to be prepared for the day ahead to shift course. The best laid plans often never even start! So off I go, to just go with the flow. Tomorrow my husband is off and I think I might just disappear for the day!
My oldest was complaining that his stomach hurt. I told him he was probably just hungry, gave him a banana and went about making the pancake batter. I gave him a waffle when it was ready and he was doubled over, moaning. I told him to eat up, thought he was being dramatic. Ten minutes later he was in the bathroom with "The Sickness" coming out of both ends.
I should consider myself lucky because my children don't get sick very often. They are really healthy and we have only had to deal with a stomach virus twice in my oldest's almost seven years. That being said, when it does happen, you might as well throw that day down the toilet with the sickness! Now my kitchen is a mess from the pancakes, and instead of getting it cleaned up, I had to do a hundred other jobs that go along with "The Sickness". Such as: cleaning the toilet and floor where "The Sickness" happened, creating a "safe zone" on the couch for the sickly one to lay, and general sympathy and consoling, which I gladly do but which takes up a generous amount of time. In addition, I had to strip the beds and wash all the stuffed animals that were in them. (We let the boys sleep together last night, so it is a guarantee that the middle child will get "The Sickness" as well, probably within the next 12 hours or so.) In between all of these things, I have had to tend to, feed, diaper and nap a baby, and take care of the almost four year old's needs with toys that won't work, movies he wants to watch, etc.
Because we don't get "The Sickness" very often, my house is not prepared for it. I have no ginger ale, Gatorade or Pedialyte. Bland foods are easy, especially when you have the variety of allergies in a household that we do. But the only juices I have are apple and white grape, neither of which will do anything to help "The Sickness" that is coming out of a certain end of my son! One of my best girlfriends goes through "The Sickness" often enough that she has become my expert on the subject. I know from her that water is no good to a sick belly. So what am I to give my son to drink?
I will figure it out, of course, and we will get through this day (and the next if the middle child gets it). But nothing will be accomplished, and I will start this long weekend in a deficit, yet again. I never have to wonder why I can never get ahead! When you have children you always have to be prepared for the day ahead to shift course. The best laid plans often never even start! So off I go, to just go with the flow. Tomorrow my husband is off and I think I might just disappear for the day!
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