Friday, June 20th, 2008...8:00 am
Paging Ms. Nightingale…please report to sick Kid duty
My fab nursing abilities apparently come with an expiration date…..
day 1: Oh, poor BAYYYYBY! Come to mommy! *hugs*
day 2: Still feeling bad? (hm, missing summer preschool morning session…oh well) Here, sit on my lap! Have a popsicle!
day 3: Hot forehead AGAIN?! Now, where’d I put that thermometer? Look, Daddy’s home from his trip! Yay! (Gotta go to the store, Hon! Be back….in AUGUST, sucka.)
day 4: PULLLEEEZE don’t be hot. Crap. (If meds make the fever go down, you could still go to today’s preschool summer session, right?) You’re hungry? The kitchen is STILL over there, Kid.
day 5: Kid, don’t you WANT to be healthy? No, you can’t sit on my lap. Stop touching me! Don’t breathe on me! No, I don’t want to play OLD MAID, AGAIN. It’s 9am: where’s that NIGHTTIME cold medicine….?
day 6: How you qualify for a medically-induced coma? You know, just to ride it out.
For her. Or me.
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Remember those eggs in the nest?
That mama clearly has more patience:
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4 Comments
June 20th, 2008 at 8:52 am
It’s funny to me how most of us in the parenting game have areas we welcome and others that send us running. Sick kid duty I love. Hosting other people’s children, not so much.
June 20th, 2008 at 10:19 am
You have my deepest sympathy, especially since it is FINALLY sunny and most of the known world will be heading for the beach today . . . (yeah, I’ve always sucked at sympathy).
Do you know what Kid has? One of mine had a week-long fever last Fall. Turns out it was mono. Yikes! Wasn’t expecting that. I didn’t find out until months later. Now I feel really bad for doping him up on Children’s Tylenol & Motrin, knocking the fever for a few hours, just so we wouldn’t have to miss the Puyallup Fair. Bad mom. But I did buy him some cotton candy .
June 20th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
Hope she feels better soon. I am usually hunting down that nighttime cold medicine by day 2 (see how patient I am?)!
Hang in there.
June 23rd, 2008 at 5:59 am
OMG that is so me. I downright LOVE Day 1 -this is what mothering is all about. By Day 3 I’m all “hush! Rock of Love is on!”
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