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Friday, February 25, 2011

An open letter to the Puke Fairy: UPDATED with parenting dilemma


Can you believe I actually got some results from a Google Image search for "puke fairy" ? Then, again, this also showed up in the search results:


So now I don't know WHAT to think.

Dear Puke Fairy Bitch:

Okay, you want to fight? You want to fucking throw down? Because I will kick your fucking ass, you bitch. I will take you out. I'm not afraid of you. No, you don't scare me, and I'm going to fight and kick and scream at you with everything I have until you get the fuck out of my house FOR GOOD.

DO YOU HEAR ME, YOU FUCKING WHORE? GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY HOUSE.

Love,
Jill

Do I need to explain this? Yeah, maybe a little bit. Perhaps you read my tale of our adventures with the Puke Fairy this past weekend? I thought we were out of the woods. Until today. I'm at work. And the secretary from the school calls to inform me that Child 2 is in her office barfing.

Seriously?

I mean.... Seriously?

For real?

Fuck.

It's funny how much I stop caring about what other drivers on the road think of me when I'm driving through downtown Oakland and then downtown Berkeley as fast as I possibly can to go pick up my sick kid from school. I've written about rude drivers a million times here, but today I just said fuck it, I'm going to BE one of those rude drivers and I don't give a shit what you think. Lots of people honked at me. Fuck 'em.

I realize, of course, that challenging the Puke Fairy to throw down isn't actually going to make either of my kids stop barfing, but it's certainly a fun thing to write.

I wonder. What will this weekend bring?

EDIT:

PARENTING DILEMMA: WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

The factors:

1. Sick 5 year old; has now thrown up 4 times; is lying in bed, pale and lethargic.
2. Healthy 9 year old, at school. Needs to be picked up at 3:15. Healthy 9 year old has autism, can tell time and gets VERY upset by an unexpected change in his routine.
3. Husband stuck in traffic. Calls at 3:00 to say he'll be home in about 30 minutes
4. I don't have a neighbor I can ask to come by for a few minutes.
5. I don't have anybody I can call and ask if they can bring healthy 9 year old home for me

My options:

1. Bundle up sick 5 year old and take him with me to pick up his brother
2. Leave sick 5 year old home by himself while I go pick up his brother
3. Call school and say I'll be late and please have healthy 9 year old with autism who can tell time wait for me in the office for an undetermined amount of time, and wait for husband to get home and watch sick 5 year old

What would you do?  Tell me in the comments and then I'll tell you what I ended up doing.



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Just thank the lord the kid barfed at school and they had to clean up the mess.....when you live in Southern California does the school send a janitor home with the sick kid? I'm actually a little jealous thinking about Southern California right now and all the cold weather and all the crazy snow we keep getting.
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I'm actually in Northern California and it's supposed to snow this weekend. Feel better?

AND... he's puked twice since I got him home.

Yeah. Good times.
Also a fun thing to read! Thanks for the smile. And I hope you kick her ass!!!!
AHEm. Cousin Smo, I have PARENTS in town for that VERY REASON. At times like this, you CALL MY MOM. No, really. She may find Child 1 (dude, can I rename your kids blog-names????) perplexing but she still finds both your kids SUPER AWESOME and fun to be with. Please do not let them vomit on my mother though. Well, Child 2 can. Because he'd laugh so hard about it and my mom laughs when other people laugh....
3 replies · active 735 weeks ago
I thought about that option, but all of that generation is at least 30 minutes away so that wouldn't have helped me. But, trust me, they are on the (very) short list for babysitting now. Did they realize that would be a consequence of moving out here? No. No they didn't.

You can rename my kid blog names, yes. What should I call them?
ATTENDEZ-VOUS! Readers of Y. GT. Child 1, the modelicious, chestnut-haired, autism-affflicted 9 year old man-cave dwelling viewer of BARTs and elevators shall be hereafter renamed.... BART! (You didn't see that coming, did you, Cousin Smo?)

His charming, sweet-talking, moon-showing cat-harassing gap-toothed five year old NT brother shall hereafter be known as TYGER.

BART AND TYGER.

Put THAT in yer blog and smoke it.

(The above is to be quoted wherever you see fit.)
Oh, Christ, I really should have seen "Bart" coming.

Bart and Tyger it is! But I need to write a long winded explanation of why you're the only person (other than hubs) whom I would allow to rename my blog children, and, so... first I must drink.

Stay tuned.
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The Domestic Goddess · 735 weeks ago

Golly ned, I hate puke.
1 reply · active 735 weeks ago
Ned hates puke, too
I hate dilemmas like this- been in this spot several times...i have come thisclose to leaving a child at home because it just seems it would be soooo much easier....but i just get these images of all the things that could go wrong in the ten minutes i'm gone.....i've always taken the sick one with me....
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And did you feel like a complete tool?
Nah,.I just get angry and start cursing the fact that i'm a single mother and cursing their deadbeat father and cursing all the cars on the road and cursing the entire world...it makes me feel better....

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Oh, yeah, I can see how that would be helpful
I am SO in this situation. I have a horrible, terrible WONDERFUL fourth option, though. It is like my version of deploying an F5 tornado or a nuke. It is a solution so powerful, that if deployed, can cause the obliteration of everything within its path : I can make my 15 year old stay home from school to help me.

Holy shit does that piss her off. Especially because she is a dork and REALLY, REALLY loves school. And she has a psuedo boyfriend. And she is in ROTC so she has rifle, drill and academic decathalon (yup. total dork!).

While the hubs and I alternatively battled the plague this past month, Alex (the 15 y.o) was called off the bench and sent up to bat way too many times to count. This MAY be the reason she wants to get the hell out of Dodge and go "away" to college. I, mean, it couldn't be anything else, right?!
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That doesn't seem fair! I want one of those! Or... do I?
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ThankfulMomma · 735 weeks ago

Take sick kiddo to pick up healthy one - and when you get home with both kiddos, and hubby is home. You take the rest of the afternoon/night off. Because more than likely you'll be back to puke duty during the night or the weekend. Good luck!! Oh yeah, and I open all the windows to air out the house (even if it's ridiculously cold - that's what the heater is for!), change all the sheets, trash their toothbrushes, etc. And then make some kind of deal with the hubby to take turns dealing with the pukester. He goes first.
1 reply · active 735 weeks ago
HA! I like the way you think!
Bundle up sick five year old.....unfair to 5 year old but you can make it up with ice cream right?
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He's so incredibly sweet. I asked him "What should we do? I don't know what to do" and he suggested "we'll just roll the windows down."

I love that kid
This is so unfair. I'm sick (not your horrible, awful, I feel so sorry for you because I cannot STAND puking kind of sick), and I almost puked because you made me laugh so hard that I started coughing to the point of choking.

I say you waited for the husband and made the 9-year-old hang at school.
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Yikes! Maybe there should be a warning label: Don't come here if you're sick, you'll just get sicker!
That's so eff'ed!! I don't think there would be any option in my mind except to bundle up the sick 5 year old and go get "BART" at school. But, I'd bring the tupperware. Why are the husbands never, ever there when you need 'em? (Sorry- that's just me!)
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I can't really judge the viability of #3...depends on the school and if they'd be understanding. Gotta be #1. If it was #2, don't admit to it on your blog.
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I would go with #4. Pack bags and take a vacation away from barfing kids!
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OMG. Just found your blog from TMG. I began my own blog TODAY! I am trying to be happier in my life and blogging about it. What has made me happy today? Reading this post!! I laughed so hard. Thanks for that. I am linking to your blog on my next post. Please stop by and visit me. I need at least ONE reader ;)
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I love this blog. I'm not sure how you made a barfing post funny, but you did. :)
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Well, I am a day late and a dollar short on this, but I would have left her home. We've done it before when one or the other was home sick and asleep. Bad parenting...but oh well. Our kids are still alive.
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Hmmm, maybe I shouldn't have admitted this in the real world...oh well.
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