Our Wonderful Weekend
Saturday morning I set Maggie on the floor and heard her crawl off to Jonas’ room to play. I lounged in my bed, enjoying the peace and listening to their giggles. A bit later, Maggie started to make her frustrated sound. Since it was on a very minor level I decided to let her work out whatever was bugging her, which typically she can manage. About a minute later “frustrated” escalated to “ok, I’m starting to get really ticked off here,” so I lumbered out of bed to go help her out. She met me in the hall where I found that Jonas had slathered her, head to toes, with special attention paid to her hair and face, in absorbase. Absorbase is Maggie’s eczema cream. I am sure it is first cousins to Crisco, as it looks, feels, and presents the same level of difficulty when you are trying to wash it out of your hair.
Because Maggie had her eyelashes full of white gunk I quickly took a warm rag to get it off before it got in her eyes. Since she wasn’t screaming, I assumed it hadn’t gotten that far, but the way she was rubbing her face it was headed there. Once her eyes were basically clear I stripped off both of our clothes and hopped in the shower with her to try, unsuccessfully to scrub the goop out of her hair. I got about half of it out when her tolerance level maxed out and I had to stop slathering her with soap and then drowning her in the water, so we got out of the shower.
I went into Jonas’ room to finish chewing him out. Before I could form words I saw that his train table, carpet, bedding, toys, bunk bed and window were all liberally greased. Almost the entire tub of cream was artfully slathered about the room. It took me over an hour to clean everything up.
The rest of the day I was cranky and tired. Chris worked twelve hour shifts all weekend because the air show is in town. All that means to me is that instead of listening to the occasional C-5 revving up we are now favored with Thunderbirds taking off with a roar making it impossible to keep a baby down for a nap. It also means that there was no driving anywhere this weekend because the meanest trip to the store would result in an hour long traffic jam due to the people flocking onto base and the total disorganization with which traffic was being diverted. ( I know, because my husband was one of the poor slobs who got volen-told for that job and every five minutes he had someone yelling at him to change what he was doing, and do it another way for five minutes until the next guy came along and bawled him out for whatever he had just been told to do.) This, paired with a really severe cold made Chris extra good tempered when he arrived home Saturday night. As we all went to bed that night I marveled at my good fortune of, for the first time ever, having everyone else get sick and me not catching it.
Sunday morning at six am I woke up with a fever and puked my guts out right as Chris yelled, “Bye!” and left for another twelve hour shift. I spent the remainder of the day running to and from the bathroom with Maggie screaming her displeasure over the abandonment and Jonas seizing the opportunity to get into stuff and throw hundreds of bits of pasta about the house.. It was a long, long day. To sum up, I may never eat onion rings again.
So, it is now Monday morning. I’m not puking. I am very weak and dizzy and can’t handle walking very well. I’m having hot and cold flashes. So, I’m sick, but not like yesterday sick. Jonas drew on the couch cushions with blue pen while I was in bed and Chris was in the shower. If it doesn’t come out, the cushions can be flipped over. Amazingly, our new couches lasted almost one year to the day of being purchased without any major destruction. In a house with small children, this is truly miraculous.
Oh yuck for you being ill hun. I was ill after going to the state fair here in Texas. I don’t think it was anything I ate and I never threw up which is often worse, cause you know you want to but it never comes. I think I lost some weight though which I guess is a plus!!
That cream sounds icky too - C did something similar when she was a baby (no outside help needed). She reached over and shoved her little fist into the tub and rubbed it everewhere she could whilst my back wss turned for about 20secs. Man, THE MESS THAT KID MADE! lol Hope ya feeli better this week.
Comment by DenimRoseDesigns — October 17, 2005 @ 7:56 pm
Are you sure your not pregnant?? From my end your story sounds funny, like a comedy sketch. But I know for you, not so funny. Did you take a picture??? Just think of the scrapbook page that would make! I had a smililar comedy sketch with 2 of my boys(2&3yrs), I wish I had a picture of that day.The joys of motherhood, you’ll think that in later years. I hope this week is better for you.
Comment by Soli — October 17, 2005 @ 11:28 pm
Sorry you had such a rough weekend! Just a tip from my experience: Don’t turn the couch cushions over unless you have company coming. No use letting the kids stain both sides! (Let’s just hope they don’t!)
Comment by Mom2Five — October 17, 2005 @ 11:40 pm
Try rubbing alcohol on the ink. It has never failed me.
Comment by Tracy — October 17, 2005 @ 11:51 pm
Wow, I’ve had weeks like that and it’s so hard. My husband is a stage hand and there are times he has 12-15 hr days or like on saturday he worked until 4am. During times like that It’s almost like being a single parent.
I feel for you!
Comment by Gina — October 18, 2005 @ 12:21 am
Goodness!
My husband has had to work air shows before and those days always ended up being days that something important happened or someone took ill.
I hope you feel better soon, girl. *hugs*
Comment by Nikki — October 18, 2005 @ 12:42 am
The internet is a funny thing. I’ve never met you, but after reading your blog for a few months, when you tell us about a weekend like this, I think, “I wish I still lived in California, so that I could go make her a cup of tea and then look after her children while she slept off this bug.”
Comment by Elizabeth — October 18, 2005 @ 1:40 am
Ew! That sounds like a nasty bug. Hope you get to feeling better very soon!
Comment by Susie — October 18, 2005 @ 2:30 am
hey, you should have called me on sunday i would have watch lonas or maggie or both, If your still not feeling well, call me and let me know what i can do for you. Try hair spray on the pen stain thats what i use on my clothes, it has worked for me. hope you feel better!
Comment by crystal — October 18, 2005 @ 4:02 am
O**** r**** … we never again speak theur name. For me it was circus peanuts.
Feel better, Lou …
Comment by Chrysalis — October 18, 2005 @ 2:52 pm
Oh I feel your pain!!!
Comment by soapbox.SUPERSTAR — October 18, 2005 @ 6:32 pm
Oh, yuck. What an awful day. I hope you feel better soon!
Comment by Eulallia — October 18, 2005 @ 7:39 pm
By the way, I LOVE that you have a whole category for vomit!
Comment by Eulallia — October 18, 2005 @ 7:40 pm
Miraculous indeed and I think we’ve all turned a cushion or two!
BTW: I just finally got the little gem scrapbook. It is so BEAUTIFUL!!!! I’m stunned. Your work is exquisite, down to the finest detail. Thank you so much!!
Comment by tj — October 18, 2005 @ 9:14 pm