Bear with me for a bit. You will understand the title, I promise.
My kids have the hurls again. Only two, thus far. But I am waiting for the inevitable crushing of my hopes and dreams, when the third, if not both other adults, end up rushing to the bathroom as well. Right at the beginning of a busy week. Ain't it always that way? I had actually originally planned this blog as a product recommendation. Thusly, I would have titled the blog "Best thing since sliced bread".
This product:
Is my hero! I find it makes cleaning my bathrooms much easier. Something about bringing a product with me, as well as the required rag/paper towels, then the laundering process afterwards, always made cleaning my bathroom a bear. But, I keep this bad boy under the sink. I open, I wipe, I throw away. Done. Makes nice for when unexpected guests come over, and I feel the overwhelming urge to clean, as well as disinfect, my bathroom before they notice... Or for when my oldest child actually makes it to the bathroom (yay!!!) before throwing up, and can disinfect between bathroom visits. I'm just saying. I love 'em!!!Now, back to my kids.... I am reaching out into the blogosphere for some motherly reassurance... I feel like my kids get sick a lot... More than I felt like I did as a child. Thankfully, whenever that happens, I can always trace it back to several other children who have had it, so I'd like to think it is not coming from my homemaking skills or culinary deficits. But, my question is this: Have these last 2 or 3 years been pretty hard on any one else's kids, or is it time to take mine to the immunotherapy place and pump them full of Vitamin C? Thusly, that blog title would have been "Mother seeking reassurance."
And lastly, just 2 days ago I was thinking it is probably time to wash my kids sheets. I am not the type of person who feels the need to wash my sheets weekly. The kids take baths before bed, and, well, I am just not that dirty of a person. I won't tell you how often I do wash them, for fear of inciting a riot, or some ugly name calling (which at the very least could end in something like "Nonsheet washer!"). But, it was about time. I was decently busy for the rest of that day, but vowed to wash the sheets when the weekend was over. Saturday night, I was awoken by the melodious sounds of my 18 month old son "coughing". And, when I say "coughing", I think you know what I mean. As I stripped his bed and started a load of laundry at 1 am, I remember distinctly thinking to myself, "Thanks Heavenly Father, for getting me off my arse." Thusly, that blog would have been titled "God's sense of Humor" or "All in God's Time". I honestly can't decide which I like better.
However, since I am rolling all these topics into one, you can see where my confusion and lack of decision making skills ended up with me surrendering to the title above. And thus it is written, and so it shall be done. Amen. :)
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Well, I can support you in the not-so-frequent-sheet-changing department. :-)My kids rarely ever get sick. My mom swears it has a lot to do with expectation - if you expect your children to be healthy, they will be. And she raised 9 of us. But then again, she has a doctor for a husband and the definition of "sick" was pretty narrow at our house.
The older your kids get, the greater your family immunity will be. I remember back when my kids were getting sick all the time (it felt like) and I whined to my MIL. She said (rather smugly, truth be told) "We hardly ever get sick anymore!" And she did make me feel like it was all my fault somehow.
But we hardly ever get sick. We're older now, maybe in the place where my MIL's family was then. And your kids are paying the price over and over again to develop the immunity that will make it so, 8 years from now, they get nary a sick day from school. Hang in there!
Alyson has a good point. Very interesting. I'm glad you can trace it back to other kids though too. I also LOVE clorox/lysole wipes! I LIVE by those things! Kid puke is never fun, I'm sorry. And, since we grew up in the same family, and are quite similar personality wise, I probably wash our sheets about the same as you! ;)
Well I am with everyone else that I don't wash my kids sheets as much as I should but since Keagan has been born and has been so sick his entire life I am starting to be better. It is not just your kids getting sick. Mine have been passing everything to us for the past 5 weeks. So I know how you feel but all I have to say is I REALLY HOPE that you and your hubby don't get it and that they start feeling better soon
WHAT?!?! You don't wash your sheets weekly?!!? ;) Just kidding, I don't either, well I didn't, now I have someone else to worry about that. And before I even read this post I was thinking, boy kids in America get sick a lot. Spencer has been sick once this past year, BUT that could also be because he is an only child so, whatever siblings go out and bring back to the household he doesn't have. So I think it's just kids get sick a lot, ESPECIALLY when they first start school. My mom told me when I started teaching at an elementary school, it'll take you two years of being sick at least once a month to get the immunity you need to work there. SO TRUE! :) Hope it doesn't all get passed on to you and hubby and Kaitlyn!
My kids don't get sick to often, but I don't count colds as sick. my definition of sick is running a fever or throwing up... and No I don't wash sheets very often either... actually I don't remember the last time I washed there sheets, but we are the same our kids shower every night before bed so they rarely sleep in there bed dirty. and I too love those wipes I have a container under everything bathroom sink, and kitchen sink too! but when Adam started kindergarton, he seemed to bring everything home. So it could just be now that you have one in school being exposed to it all, she is bringing it home to the family. just pump them with Vitamens, eat healthy, and make sure they get to play outside lots. I think being in the sun and out door play helps build our immune systems. don't know why, but kids who are outside more and more active are sick less.
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