Vacuum?

CAUTION... your gaging reflex may kick in while reading this one....


There is this virus going around out here with vomiting and diarrhea and it arrived at my house last Wednesday. Tatum got sick last Wednesday night at about 11:15pm, when she woke up vomiting. As I looked at her in her crib full of vomit, I suddenly felt nauseous myself and realized I had no idea what to do first. Do I pick Tatum up? How do I clean all this up? Oh my gosh I am such a newbie! For a moment, I was back in time, I remembered a time in my pre-teen years when I was about 13. I was babysitting for a neighbor who had two kids, one was about 1 1/2 and the other was about 5. I have no idea in the world why they wanted me, a naive 13 year old to watch their 1 1/2 year old, but whatever. I played with the kids, fed them and put them to bed. Easy, right? Next thing I know, I am in the one year olds bedroom where there is vomit everywhere. Hmmm..de ja vu? Anyways, I ended up getting the parents vacuum and sucked those chunks right up. Needless to say they never asked me to babysit again...Hmm wonder why? So as I stare at my child with vomit covering her body and hair and everything else around her, I wonder do I get the vacuum? (hehe) No!! :)

This went on for days....Friday morning Tatum woke up still vomiting and had a slight fever. I took her into the doctor that afternoon only to hear the doctor tell me it was a virus and there was nothing he could do for her. So she lounged on the couch the whole weekend mostly sleeping. The vomiting finally came to an end on Monday, but we are still dealing with sudden diarrhea episodes. Daniel and I were hoping that we wouldn't get sick, but as of midnight last night Daniel was now sick too. I am hoping I can escape from this awful sickness.
Tatum fell asleep on the couch with her mismatched princess slippers on.

If I learned anything this weekend it would be that I now realize what my mom had been talking about all this time. "Just you wait!!", she would tell me. Well mom, here I am with my "perfect child" (haha!) that didn't have the projectile spit up that I supposedly needed all those hundreds of burp cloths for, all those receiving blankets, or the extra sheets you told me I would need and I need them all now. I thought I had gotten through the hard part and little did I know I had it easy. I hadn't needed to use all those burp cloths or had to change the sheets in the middle of the night for the last 18 months, but all those extra sheets and blankets came in handy this past weekend. Tatum was vomiting every 15-30 minutes and I was using every burp cloth I could find to clean her up or catch it before it was all over our house. As of yesterday morning, I did a total of 10 loads of laundry of almost every blanket, burp cloth, pajamas and sheets we owned.

Things I learned this past weekend:
Moms really do know best and don't use a vacuum for Vomit!!