Author: Rebecca

Looking at the Bright Side

Things that I am grateful for as we are cleaning up vomit in the middle of the night:
1) I am grateful that Adam was on our bed when Jeremy threw up all over Adam’s bed and their room on his way to the toilet. Otherwise, Jeremy would have thrown up all over Adam’s bed, the floor, the wall, a bit of Ethan’s bed AND on Adam!
2) I am grateful that Adam didn’t stay on our bed like he was instructed, because he was next to throw up while we were working on the first mess. If he had stayed like I asked him to, he would have thrown up on our bed and then Kyle and I would have had no bedding on our bed when we were all done cleaning up and were ready to go back to bed.
3) I am somewhat grateful that we have two kids throwing up (and one more going between her bed and the toilet as she complains that she feels like she is going to). I know this one doesn’t sound like much of a blessing. But Seth threw up Tuesday evening and if it took three days to get from one person to the next and if it only ever hit one person at a time, it could literally take a month to get through our family of 10.
4) I am grateful that despite all the lights that were on and all the noise with kids crying because they don’t feel well and the noise of the carpet cleaner, Seth and Lydia slept through it all.
5) I am grateful we own a carpet cleaner. I don’t even want to think about how we would have cleaned it all up without one.

Oh and it’s amazing what a happy sound barf going into the toilet is… After waking up to the sound of barf going everywhere BUT the toilet.

Dinah’s Lost Tooth

Towards the end of February, Dinah had a loose tooth. We were watching “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” with Danny Kaye, and her tooth was wiggly, and she just couldn’t leave it alone. We told her to wait until the movie was over to pull it out, but she didn’t listen. The prospect of getting a dollar from the tooth fairy was just too much for her to resist and so she plucked it.

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Sometime before the movie was over, the tooth went missing. We searched all over after the movie was over. We cleaned up the family room and ran our hands over the carpet, but there was no sign of her tooth. She had been to the bathroom to look at her mouth in the mirror, and she had gone into the laundry room to throw away the washcloth that she bit on to stop the bleeding and so we searched the hallway and laundry room and bathroom as well but no tooth. This tooth was literally LOST. It just seemed to have vanished. And since she didn’t have a tooth to leave for the tooth fairy, the tooth fairy didn’t leave her a dollar.

By the end of March we still hadn’t found the tooth and Dinah had a nice little freak out because I went down there to vacuum.

This afternoon, Dinah found an envelope with a dollar and a note under her pillow. The note was from the tooth fairy, letting Dinah know that she found her tooth last night. The tooth fairy said that she has been checking for the lost tooth every time she has been in the area and she finally found it. Apparently it hid really well in our newer, fluffy carpet downstairs.