Take 2 beers and call your babysitter in the morning!

I am sending empathy and sympathy your way. I hope all are well soon.

OMG, THAT IS HYSTERICAL!

Although I am sure I have the tune wrong or something.

I recommend the two-beer approach too. It's definitely improved my outlook!

Brilliant, just brilliant. Laughed so hard I scared the cat.
Er, I mean, I'm sorry your kids are sick.

Sing it, Sista. In the laundry right now are the clothes Daphne threw up on as I was picking her up from school. Now I am wearing easy-wash sweats. No fool, me. We're heading to the doctor in an hour to find out why a three year old still has the stomach flu after six days. After that, if we hurry, we can still make the Mother's Day tea at Dylan's school 25 mintues after that, ten miles away, going 80 mph.

There is a silver lining, though: they are spending the weekend with their dad!!

What kind of woman can write stuff like that, being all creative, when the germs are taking over the house?! What drugs are you on, woman?!
You need to publish this little song. Really! Make some money off the kids!

Sweetie - you make our lives look easier! When my twins were toddlers and so sick one time-they are the youngest of 5- I could not figure out which was worse: the girl that sat right where she was and barfed entailing a clean up that included shampooing the furniture ~ or my son who would get up and try to run for the toilet thereby only having to shampoo the carpet, which I think is much easier. I complained about the laundry, lack of sleep, etc. But I had a washing machine then. Now I do not even have that. I think the hardest part is when they get it one after another and it's like two months of illness!! We did that once: 5 kids, ten day flu (i took them in on the 7th day and was told it was a 10 day deal), then they each went through step throat. I for one was not signing! God love ya sweetie!!

Me again! This is bringing back so many good memories! When one of my girls was sick and vomitting and my best girlfriend and I hauled our 8 kids (the oldest at the time were 8ish and my twins were maybe 1 yr old) to Walmart to shop before Christmas. It was a two hour drive and we also stopped to see my granparents in their little tiny single wide trailer. My daughter, about 5 at the time came down with some bad stomache thing just before we hit Walmart. I had her use a paper drink cup to throw up in. We should have just left and gone home but I don't think I need to go into a lot of detail about how difficult it was to take 8 kids anywhere and how I was not going to go to this much trouble again and this was my only shot. I drug her through Walmart while she was puking in this paper cup (about 6 times she threw up) and we really did hurry and at the time I was feeling like I just have to make this trip worth all the trouble we went through to get here and that meant buying stuff. I still feel guilty. What kind of mother does that?? Now the song: did anyone ever watch the old show "Hee Haw" ( I am thinking while I am writing this ya'll must think I am a real hick. But I am not. It just sounds like it. (what's the difference between Northern girls and Southern girls? Northern girls say, "Yes you can" and Southern girls say, "Ya'll can")Remember the song that goes: "we're not ones to go around spreading rumors/why really were just not the gossiping kind/why you'll never hear one of us repeating gossip/so you better be sure and listen close the first time"? One of my verses for that same poor child that was vomitting in Walmart I made up when she was a baby and she cried all the time!!
Why Haley she's a really cranky gal/ fussin and crying nearly all the time/ well I don't know about all the neighbors/ but I hear her mama's about to lose her mind.

only 13 years till the twins are old enough to leave home...my mom says, "honey, life really does get better when the kids grow up and move out" I just hope there is a small bit of grey matter left in my head then...
I am sure losin' it fast.

Wow! Amazing! All that going on and not only do you have time to blog but to be wonderfully creative and rhyme too!

LOL!!! I'm with Tammy. What drugs you on, woman? And where do I get me some? I do hope the kidlets are better soon. Pneumonia, fever, puking, pink-eye - they jess ain't no fun.

I confess that I, too, laughed out loud. Thanks:)

I love you!! See? This is one of the greatest lessons I learned from you, my dear, funny, wonderfully witty friend...the ability to laugh a great big belly laugh even when things are certifiably sucky.

They must have left this whole part out when we were first thinking about having kids.

Yet, for some reason, frequent intestinal reversals only seem to add to the lore of parenthood. Weird, isn't it?

I can always count on you to get a song stuck in my head. LOL

Hope you all are feeling better.

Woo-hoo! Now that is a terrific song! And you have my deep sympathies, hope they all make a speedy recovery.

Wishing you a very Happy Mother's Day, even if you spend much of it doing laundry!

from a triplet mom,

Hope today is better.

Happy Mother's Day!

LOVE your song! I hope everyone is feeling better now!

Stopping by to wish you a Happy Mother's Day!!!

Hope all are feeling better. Have a wonderful Mother's Day!

OMG! You crack my a$$!!

Can you write a little diddy for me? Inspiration: Husband out of town for work, torrential downpour causing water to pour into the electrical panel resulting in sparks and flickering lights and 1 year old daughter vomitting violently all over bedroom, living room and me. I would prefer my song to be to the tune of "Five Green and Speckled Frogs" please. :)

Happy Mother's Day! Sending virtual chicken soup and hugs your way.

Hmmm maybe I'll use that lil ditty at storytime this morning :)

So glad you could find the humor in it and share with w/the rest of us.

Just wish I could remember the tune!