1.  Life screeches to a halt when your 12 month old/ 7 year old/ you contract an evil stomach virus.

2.  When the nurse says everyone in the house will probably get the aforementioned stomach flu.  Believe her.  Adam was the only one blessed enough not to contract the horrible nighmarish virus.  And thank the good Lord above! He must have the immune system of a gladiator.  Bless his heart though.  He hardly slept and he did such a good job taking care of his house ful’ o girls.

3.  Freakishly large piles of laundry will appear when 3 people are puking and diarrhea-ing.

4.  I turn into a worrying anxious panicking mom when my kids have even the most common of childhood illnesses.  All of a sudden I am freaking out about bacterial meningitis and the world is COMING TO AN END!

5.  Tivo is even better when you can’t get up from the couch.

6.  Adam is a really good puke cleaner upper/laundry do-er/disinfecter-er/soup cook-er/all night baby holder-er.  I added that last -er just for fun.  Filing all of that in my brain under good things to know.

7.  Alvin and the Chipmunks is a really funny movie.  We have had it for a year and I finally got to watch it while we were sick.  We brought Addie’s old twin mattress downstairs into the hallway so she could be closer to the bathroom.  Although we were both feeling pretty bad there were some really sweet moments.  In between restroom visits, I shared my love of the Pottery Barn Kids catalog with Addison as we watched movies on a portable DVD player. Good times.

8.  In the aftermath of the last week I have turned into a germ killing maniac.  I am a pretty decent housekeeper, but I have been washing everything in scalding water and I bought a 4 pack of Clorox wipes at Sam’s yesterday.

9.  My Google Reader has 233 unread items.  I am ridiculously overwhelmed!  There is no way that I can catch up at this rate so could everyone just do me a favor and STOP writing!  I don’t want to miss a thing!

10.  Number ten goes out to Jamie.  I now know first hand how good it truly is to “not smell like diarrhea anymore.”

It’s good to be back.  This week I have some things in mind to write and one of them involves an  old story about Addison, lip gloss and the dog’s butt.  Yeah…I’ll let you marinate on that for a while.

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