Cowboy Up
Posted on | July 6, 2009 | 6 Comments
You guys, I’m trying to cowboy up a little. Archie is sick. He’s rarely sick and this is the first time he’s ever puked. No kidding. When he was a baby, he’d spit up, but today is the first time in his life he’s actually been pukey-sick. It’s remarkable. Kid vomit is prodigious. And totally spontaneous. When I barf, I know it’s coming. For like hours. But with A, he’s just hanging out and suddenly barf everywhere.
It’s noon, and I’ve done seven (SEVEN) loads of laundry. Sheets, pillows, rugs, jammies, jammies, jammies, rags, washcloths.
What I’d like is a nap, but I’ve also made banana bread and I’m waiting for that to come out of the oven.
Fancyhats and I had a lot of social engagements this weekend. Both of us are social people, but it was way too much. Just too too much. Fancyhats is trying to teach me about the life of leisure and this weekend we took a break from the life of leisure life lessons. I miss the life of leisure life lessons. I’d like to go back to those. It’s important to lie on the couch and read while Fancyhats watches baseball. In his Redsox hat. He puts on his hat when the game comes on. It’s super-wonderful.
Here’s my point: I need a reading-my-book hat of some sort.
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July 6th, 2009 @ 5:19 pm
Oh! Healthy vibes going Archie’s way! And yours, too. Because cleaning up puke makes you tired. Super tired. I have a hat for reading. Seriously. I might have to find a picture of me doing it.
July 6th, 2009 @ 6:30 pm
Makes perfect sense to me. How about a beret of some sort?
July 7th, 2009 @ 12:56 am
Having sick kids is worse than when you’re sick. You feel helpless because they’re hurting and there’s not much you can do except be there for them which doesn’t seem like a lot when they’re throwing up.
Hope Archie gets better.
July 7th, 2009 @ 11:06 am
Oh the never ending puke laundry. I know I don’t have a kid but I have a dog who is a sensitive snowflake and two cats who like to puke just see what comes out of their tummies.
And they like to do it on the bed.
I feel you lady.
You should wear a bonnet of some kind. DO people still make bonnets?
#bonnets
July 7th, 2009 @ 11:20 am
Oh I know it! When they puke, they have no idea it’s coming and it’s just suddenly all over everything.
Get the Pedialite or however you spell it and hunker down and pray for day light.
July 7th, 2009 @ 11:29 am
Okay–I have to tell you a secret….I can’t deal with puke. Seriously….CANNOT DEAL WITH VOMIT.
Vomit in and of itself, although really gross, isn’t the issue. I am so freakishly terrified that I MAY VOMIT, that I cannot be around puke, those puking or anything that sick hands may have POSSIBLY touched. I am a terrible housekeeper–but when puke is involved I become a rubbermaid gloved, bleach using cleaning WONDER.
Of course, I wait half an hour or so to let the offending airborne germs go away or whatever (stop….it makes ME feel better), and bleach away the germs.
Too bad for you if you vomit on my watch. You are on your own……..I am such a bad mom.
p.s. I do hope Archie is better, and I also hope you don’t catch the germs.
p.p.s…I’m afraid if I were there, I couldn’t eat your banana bread either…….since it was made near vomit germs and with possible vomit contaminted hands (I know….I know…..)
p.p.s.s. Maybe the new show a’obsessed’ is in order for me? Possibly? Nah…surely not.