Anyone remember the
Barf O Rama in Stand By Me, way back in the day? (
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Well, that was The Curti Household earlier this week. No kidding.
Monday night all was calm on the Curti front. Until...
10 p.m. Jarad and I had just settled down and were about to turn out the lights. Tess starts crying hysterically in her bed. I go in and scoop her up, only to feel the chunks in her long blonde tresses. Yum. She had lost it all over her bed (thankfully the bottom bunk).
10:30 Tess is showered and clean, bedding stripped and a temporary bed -- complete with a bucket in case she can't make it to the toilet -- is made on my bedroom floor so I can keep an eye on her. No sooner do we turn out the light than we hear Emma start coughing (which for us is a sure sign that it's comin' up). I walk into her room and she's sitting at the top of her loft-bed ladder, facing away from her bed with throw-up running down her shirt, her legs, the ladder, her desktop (and ALL the random stuff on it) and the floor. Oh, did I mention it had also hit Fisher's bed, Fisher's ladder, Fisher's reading area underneath his bed, the blinds, the wall... Well, you get the picture. If you're not joining the Barf O Rama by now, read on.
12:30 a.m. Emma is showered and cleaned up. We've cleaned up her bed, shampooed her carpet and Jarad has preemptively placed barf buckets on each of the boys' beds, and next to his own. Just in case. We finally go back to bed.
... Emma continues dry heaving every 20 to 30 minutes for FOUR HOURS ...
4:00 a.m. Case comes in to use the bathroom in our room. Of course he has to come over to tell me he went to the bathroom, so I ask him how his tummy feels. It's fine. I tell him that Dad has put a bucket on his bed in case he feels yucky. Fifteen minutes later I hear Case crying. I go into his room to find him on all fours on his bed, heaving into the bucket.
WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?
So I have three sick kids at home. I cancel my appointments for the day and tend to them. Until noon when I start in on it. Seriously! Thankfully Emma was already feeling better and no one threw up anymore once I started getting sick.
THEN on Wednesday, just when we think everyone is feeling better (it had been since well before noon that any of the kids had been sick), we send Tess and Case to our beloved babysitter Christy for the day, only to have them throw up again.
When I say Barf O Rama, I am not kidding!Thank Heaven for Jarad who took the day off on Wednesday to take care of the twins and help me recover too. What a week!
