You must do the things you think you cannot do.
~
Eleanor Roosevelt

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Stomach Bug and Spring Cleaning


I'll start by saying I really don't like daylight savings time. There's no need to mess with my internal clock and throw my house into chaos for a week so we can 'gain' or 'lose' an hour.

For some reason this time DST spurred in me a desire to spring clean the kids' rooms so I spent all day Sunday emptying drawers and toy bins, dusting knick knacks, hanging shelves and generally tidying up.  By bedtime I was finished with Ella's room and mostly done wtih the boys' room.

I went to bed a tired, but happy and satisfied camper.

Then the clock struck 12 [literally], Shane sat up in bed and emptied his stomach all over it. We changed the sheets, put him in his bed and at 1 he did the same thing again.  Cleaned everything up again. Back to sleep.

3:30 the other end of his little self erupted. And again around 5.  At this point I decided he should sleep in the tub to ease my cleanup.

His little system continued to purge itself of everything from both ends all day. I don't think I've used more bleach or washed more laundry in one day in my life.
By bed time he was able to keep down 2 popsicles and he didn't throw up last night so hopefully this is a fast moving bug.

In the meantime I'm digging my way out of the laundry pile while spraying every hard surface with bleach.  It's a good thing I had already planned to make this an easy run week.

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