Gross for Halloween

I enjoy walking around with my kids on my shoulders.  Just maybe not when they are sick...

This weekend Dude sneezed while he was up there.  And I mean SNEEZED - he seems to have a lot more stuff coming out of his nose at one time than any of the kids.  I cleaned it up at the store, only to be driving home and find another gob on the side of my head.  Super Lu had a good laugh at me.  Thanks a lot!

There's the reason people are always looking at us in the store; it's not that we're a transracial family, it's that the idiot father is walking around with snot chunks on his head.   And who says having a larger family is more expensive?  I am clearly saving $$$ on hair gel....

Speaking of gross, this morning I was getting the kids ready for the school bus & daycare (I take the morning shift, Super Lu picks them all up).  Dude's face was caked with nose run-off & then it was cooked on because he has a fever.  Probably not going to daycare.  Later, Spark Plug runs into the kitchen, says 'my throat hurts', runs to a corner, and proceeds to empty her guts all over the floor.  Twice.  Then she asks 'can we go now?'.  She is an amazing patient when sick or injured (the last time I was away for meetings, she fell asleep getting stitches in her head at the ER late in the evening).  Actually, our entire family are pretty good patients.

So I'm staying home today with 2 kids.  I'll still be able to get some work done, but not as much as normal.  I never have a shortage of work hours in a week, so this will be fine.  Just hope the little ones will feel better soon.

I.B.