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Is anyone else completely freaked out by the dire economic news? All my favorite talk show hosts (Thom Hartmann especially) are sounding like they are steps away from Hari Kari. And they prognosticate far more lows in the future. Dearest Husband of mine has spent a lot of time this month hanging around the house being bored (though he is gearing up to build me a rocking chair, so that’s awesome, huh?) and his work for this week (he works for the ‘industry’ out here, which is our way of saying the movie/tv/commercial machines) dried up and now nada all week. Which is just as well, because I almost hate to say it (but I will even though this is possibly Too Much Information), but NOW we have the throw-ups moving through the family. Everyone, but me and middle daughter, are down with a stomach bug. And last night was one of those laugh or cry moments, I had two children puking into bowls at the exact same time. I chose laugh, which might not win me any bedside-manner awards, but c’est la vie! Because one the unspoken rules of parenting is that if you have a child under 5 years old who is going to throw-up, they will throw-up on you, the mother, every time. You’ve just got to laugh, or else you’ll spiral into despair. There, let THAT be your birth control ;o)
My middle daughter, who had the stomach bug first and lived to tell about it, made this comic to share the joys.
But, back to the economy, any of you who have followed my comics for a while know that I don’t often (okay rarely if ever) talk about shopping (especially in the context of wandering around big box stores looking for bargains and presents), but this bath towel comic is an exception. This really happened, and I found it kind of funny. So, that’s my excuse for doing a comic that’s a bit out of character, it was funny, and I could use the laugh ;o)!
xox,
Heather
this musing is related to this comic: Bath Towels!
Shucks. That WAS a good deal on new bath towels too. Oh well.
oh poor mama and poor family. i hope everyone gets better quickly.
as for the economy: i have been really torn. i feel like “we” focus to much on buying stuff as a culture and that maybe this will bring people around to something else. and when i have had to buy something i have been doing it locally. it is freakin’ amazing how little you need things when it isn’t there to get. plus the goodwill and other thrift stores have loads of stuff.
ok, so i have finally (i got the book a year ago)started reading “the freedom manifesto” (which you talked about a long time ago. lol)and i guess i needed to wait because i am so in the spot to agree 100% with what he says.
about a year ago (maybe less) someone in our local free newspaper wrote a wonderful opinion piece on sacrifice on what it really means and how we have no idea. how we have no idea because we have not had to do it. i should post a link.
heather in maine
ugh! another 3.5 years of being thrown-up on.
It’s going around here in New England too. . . hoping you are all better soon. SO true about puking on the mother, or peeing, etc. No matter where I am in the house, even if Daddy is at her side, I always seem to get it on me somehow. . . some law of gravity or something . . . gravitational pull of motherhood . . . fathers must have some kevlar suit of super Dad or something. . .
It’s gotten our house as well, the first affected was my barf-paranoid son and it went downhill from there.
Have you seen this? It’s supposed to help ‘practice’ for giving birth. It looks like something Hathor would have a laugh over.
http://jezebel.com/5160333/invention-lets-women-practice-giving-birth-with-a-balloon
If it’s any comfort, it’s going around here in PA as well! Except that our variation seems to involve less puking and more problems on, umm, the other end. Yipes! My poor middle daughter got sent home with it twice! (Had it, got over it, had it again!) And then the little one had a random ear infection. What a week!
I like your daughter’s drawing.