12:45am.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Finally asleep. Deep sleep.\u00a0 Under the covers with cat at my\u00a0feet sleep.\u00a0 Husband is not snoring.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tap. Tap. Tap.<\/p>\n
It is not my husband.<\/p>\n
Mooooooooooommm………taptaptap. Mommy.<\/p>\n
I roll over and there is my 6 and 1\/2 year old.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I don’t feel very….\u00a0blecccccccccccccch.<\/p>\n
Suddenly there is vomit everywhere. And my daughter is crying and scared.\u00a0 In rapidwarp mom speed I am out of the bed and on the way to the bathroom with my daughter in tow. Puking.Not me. My daughter. But I just might. Puke is like that.\u00a0 My husband is still trying to figure out what has just happened.\u00a0 Then he does.<\/p>\n
OHMYGOD! THERE IS\u00a0PUKE EVERYWHERE!!!<\/p>\n
Yes, dear, I know. I say, in between holding my daughters hair and letting her know everything is fine regardless of how many times she is throwing up\u00a0beside\u00a0the toilet and not in the toilet.<\/p>\n
My husband is out of bed-he makes his way to the bathroom.<\/p>\n
Watch out don’t step in the………<\/p>\n
OHMYGOD! I JUST STEPPED IN PUKE!!!<\/p>\n
Yeah. I know.<\/p>\n
Obviously the stomach bug going around school has found us.\u00a0 We managed to avoid the pink eye out break-but got the stomach bug.\u00a0 In full force.\u00a0 24 hours of yuck.\u00a0 Or as my daughter said:<\/p>\n
I have the throw ups.<\/p>\n
And then things go really kaflooey and my daughter says she thinks she has the “dia-rib”.<\/em><\/p>\n And then we started in on that for the next\u00a0two hours.<\/p>\n A stomach bug\u00a0is on a different plane of things we deal with in the world of mom.\u00a0 Say to any mom anywhere your child has the stomach bug and immediately, we all know what that means.\u00a0 Say anyone else but\u00a0your child has it and it is a whole different thing.\u00a0<\/p>\n Popsicles and sprite.\u00a0 Toasts without the crust. Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeze.\u00a0 Checking the fever.\u00a0Hating to hear your child cry the I don’t feel good cry.\u00a0<\/p>\n Then it all calms down.\u00a0 Systems are restored.\u00a0 Sleep is not.\u00a0 School is back on.\u00a0 Again.<\/p>\n What if the throw-ups come back?\u00a0 At school.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>Becauseithappenedtothisonegirlinthecafeteriaandeveryonewas makingfunofher.<\/p>\n My daughter is making a case for not going back to school.<\/p>\n You are fine.\u00a0 You can go back to school.<\/p>\n But…<\/em><\/p>\n You are fine.<\/p>\n YOUARETHEMEANESTMOMINTHEWORLD……<\/em><\/p>\n Just wait, I say.\u00a0 Just wait until you are in middle school and you want to go to the mall with all your friends and wear a shirt you think is cool but I think is too\u00a0revealing.\u00a0 Just wait until you are in\u00a0high-school and madly in love with “that guy” your father and I think is a creep.\u00a0 Just wait until I will not let you stay out all night at “some party” with “some of your friends” because you want to be treated like an adult-but you are not even 18 yet.\u00a0 Just wait until I bite my tongue and remain silent because I want you to figure it out on your own…..even though I know the outcome may lead to disappointment and heartbreak.\u00a0 Just wait.<\/p>\n \u00a0You are fine. Now get on the bus and give the meanest mom in the whole world a kiss.<\/p>\n I love you.<\/p>\n Then I feel like the meanest mom in the world and call the school nurse.<\/p>\n Hi.\u00a0 This is the meanest mom in the whole world.<\/p>\n I know this is not part of your job-but- well, could you just-well, see….um,\u00a0I made her go back to school and she was afraid she would throw\u00a0up in the\u00a0cafeteria..and, well, could you please, um, just\u00a0check on my daughter?\u00a0 And if she needs to come home, well, you know, just give me a call and I’ll be right there.<\/p>\n The phone never rang. All day.<\/p>\n The mother load.<\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n