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Thursday, March 20, 2008

A Crappy Day

At 4 am this morning, I woke up with a huge migraine in my right eye. It hurt to even blink and I knew if I even moved my head an inch, I would throw up. After lying there for what some like forever, I finally mustered up the will to call out to the Big Giraffe that I needed my migraine medicine. After a little bit, the medicine kicked in, and I felt better enough to be able to fall asleep. However, when it was time to get up, my head still hurt, although not quite as much, and I felt kind of...crappy. The Big Giraffe took the day off from work to stay home with the boys.

While I was dozing upstairs, the Big Giraffe had quite the morning. First, our older son (OS) had a gigantic accident in his bed. More crap to deal with. Well, technically not crap, but, pee nonetheless. The Big Giraffe got the pleasure of cleaning up the bedclothes and giving both boys a bath. (It was just apparently more convenient to have both in the tub.) In the meantime, the veterinarian had put our golden retriever, Gandalf, on another week of limited activity, because he is still not recovered from his surgery, so the Big Giraffe couldn't just open up the back door and let him out into the yard like we usually do. Instead he needed to be walked...apparently as soon as everyone was awake. During the baths, Gandalf had an accident. More crap for the Big Giraffe to handle. Yes, this time it was crap. Plus the Big Giraffe got to manage the usual antics of two small kids.

I would say that this gave the Big Giraffe a whole new understanding of what I do all day except that the Big Giraffe has always firmly believed that being a stay at home parent is very demanding. Personally, I think today I was better off with the migraine.

A. Elliot's Lesson Learned: Parenting can involve a lot of crap.

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posted by Alex Elliot @ 7:03 PM   9 comments
9 Comments:

  • At 3/20/2008 8:36 PM, Blogger Jodi said…

    your husband stayed home? willingly? w/out an argument? I want your life.

     

  • At 3/20/2008 8:47 PM, Blogger Kami said…

    Your husband sounds a lot like mine! Yay for involved Dad's with flexible jobs.

    Hope the crap has quit and the migrane has vamoosed.

     

  • At 3/20/2008 9:52 PM, Blogger Heather said…

    Hope your head has quit threatening to explode.

     

  • At 3/20/2008 11:56 PM, Blogger super des said…

    I am so glad he stayed home. There may have been 2 dead kids and a dead dog by the time he came home...

     

  • At 3/21/2008 10:53 AM, Blogger Jen of A2eatwrite said…

    I'm so glad your DH "gets" that. I also hope you're feeling much, much better today!

     

  • At 3/21/2008 10:59 AM, OpenID cablegirl said…

    Mega points to the Big Giraffe for understanding that staying home is not easy. It seems that all too many parents who don't stay at home think that tending children all day is just easy.

    Hope the migraine is better.... or maybe not, you know, so you get the rest of the day off. lol

     

  • At 3/21/2008 4:29 PM, Anonymous Big Giraffe said…

    Alex, you have such wise readers.

     

  • At 3/21/2008 6:15 PM, Blogger skiplovey said…

    Wow that's great that he stayed home to take care of the boys. Migraines are the worst.

     

  • At 3/24/2008 8:43 AM, Blogger Suzanne said…

    I think that you sensed that it was going to be a horrific day and hence the migraine. Brilliant. I wish I had such a finely honed intuition.

     
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