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12:30am Wake-Up Calls & other unpleasant realities

5/7/2013

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I sit with a queasy stomach and feel light-headed.  Woke up this morning in a delirium at 12:30 am to my son telling me about his vomiting escapades downstairs.  I stumbled down to his room where projectile vomit covered his wall and the carpet and the entire bathroom.  Wow.  How does that happen?  Poor guy I thought.  Poor mom I thought.  Lucky me. Nothing like stripping down a bed and disinfecting two rooms when you are bleary eyed.  And so the laundry marathon begins....Dylan spent the day at home with me while I worked.  Worked is a loose term as I tended to his needs and did round two on the bathroom.  Boy that rug has never gotten so much attention. Somehow despite a fairly large target such as the toilet bowl there was difficulty in getting his not yet digested scrambled eggs into their intended resting place.  Again I bent over and applied the handy disinfectant wipes and added another load to my already taxed washing machine.  As the day went on I started to feel yucky and retired to my room for a couple hours.  My lovely husband tended to the boys while I tried to kick what seems to be an illness hovering over my being.  


And so here's my counterpoint list to yesterday.  


The things that take my smile away:
  • Barf
  • Barf that lingers after you try to wash it out and you have to clean out the machine and wash again.  Ahhh so that's what they mean by "blowing chunks!"
  • A sick child....I've been blessed with healthy children and so I guess I am paying my dues with this latest bout.
  • Cleaning the toilet.....more than once in a few hours
  • Bad news
  • Cruelty
  • Plastic plants & flowers
  • Genetically modified organisms
  • A society with so much yet so many who don't have enough
  • A divided nation 
  • Disregard for our environment
  • Discrimination in all forms
  • Violence
  • The inability to see that a people who are well fed, sheltered, clothed, educated and who have their physical and mental health care needs provided are much more powerful than a society where those basic rights are denied to only those who have the means.
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Presley link
12/26/2020 02:28:59 am

This was lovelyy to read

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