View From the Bushes

This weekend was quite an adventure. The epic didn't start unil Saturday. My youngest has this habit of holding her breath when she starts crying and then letting loose this huge scream (hopefully you can picture the phenomenon I'm referring to). Well, when my wife put her down for a nap she did that trick and did it long enough that she passed out, fell over and hit her head on the side of the crib. My wife picked her up, and not only had her eyes rolled into the back of her head, but she was limp and blue. It only took a second before herr reflexive breathing kicked in, but as you can well imagine, it totally freaked my wife out and that was only the beginning...

Actually I need to backtrack a little bit. Starting on Friday night, my wife came down with a head-splitting, nausea-inducing headache (I think I was talking with her about World of Warcraft at the time). And that little slice of heaven continued through the whole weekend (in fact, she's still grappling with it today, which is pretty awful when you hear how the rest of the weekend went). So then late Saturday night my friend from California calls me; he's in town just for the day and he wants to go grab a bite to eat, but yet another friend can't go until midnight, so we head out to a greasy spoon. I stuff myself and waddle to bed around 2:30 am. The next morning my wife was still sick, so I got up early with the kids. I figured that I could go to bed early on Sunday night. But then...

Sunday actually went okay for the most part, but then just as the kids were getting ready for bed around 8:00, my oldest started throwing up. My wife voluteered to sleep with her, which would give me the bed to myself, but then right around 11:00 my second son threw up (without going into details, it was not pretty). With two kids we had to divide up, so I took my son. As you may know or suspect, sleeping with someone who you think may vomit at any time is not the most restful way to sleep, and that takes us to today: my wife is still not feeling well, though mercifully both kids seem to be through the worst of it. On that note, I'll end with a somewhat nauseating article on High School students' complete lack of knowledge about the First Amendment.

Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero
Ross