I wanted to get up at 5 this morning so I could get a head start on what plans to be a busy Monday but instead I awoke at 4 to Zach at the side of my bed telling me he puked...all over the bathroom floor. I rolled over, hit Rick on the shoulder and shared the news and like zombies we both rose. Rick cleaned, I tended to Zachy, and then grabbed a crying Lizzie. While all of this is going on JT stumbles from the couch and asks if he can take a bath. JT is on the couch because he spent all night puking including once in his bed and the most awesome moment of trying to get out of his bunk and instead hurling puke on the floor and our personal favorite in the lego bin. Of course all of this came after Lizzie puking all over me earlier in the evening while I was talking to my dad which was then followed by her code browning in the bathtub and her puking through two sets of sheets and her sister puking on me once. But all of this comes fun comes after Rick taking Lizzie to Urgent Care on Saturday night because she won't sleep; all she will do is scream and scream regardless of how you hold her, where you hold her so that has to mean an ear infection but two hours later it means that the Urgent Care people think Rick is crazy. And all of that comes after what may have been the most hectic week of our lives between things I have going on at work, school events, and Rick's Top Secret project (which is more grueling than we imagined) and all of us having a cold. And let's not even talk about Christmas or the lack there of thus far at our house! And now I sit at 5 AM at my computer waiting for someone from IT to answer the phone and change my password.
But through all of the puking, crying, and sleeplessness Rick has made me laugh because there is really nothing else we can do at this moment but laugh. Things are shitty but this too will pass and on the other side there may be rainbows and unicorns or more shit but either way at least I know I have a friend that is willing to sift through legos to find the pieces that were puked on, take a baby to urgent care despite his exhaustion, and make me feel better with a little laughter.
And because we aren't nearly as cute here are the chickens at their last baseball game of 2012.
