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

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.