In the Midst of the Sickery

Some of you have already been privy to my bitchery about the whole moms and sickness thing. Simply put, I'm of the belief that moms should be exempt from illness. Period. It should be outlawed. If I need to explain that to anyone, just think about how your mom (or grandma, whoever held the mom role in your household) took care of you when you were sick. Remember the soup and tea, the thermometers and orange juice and scrambled eggs? Right. Now think of who took care of your mom and kept the house clean when she was sick. Right. Moving on.

I'm home sick today. Yesterday too. Along with the Male Offspring. What started as a sore throat and some sinus nastiness has also progressed downward, so I can now enjoy hacking my lungs up along with my head feeling like it's been pumped full of pudding and my throat feeling like someone took a cheese grater to it.

And just to add to the fun, when is the last time we've had sunny days around the Puget Sound? I'd tell you, if I could remember, but I can't. The last 3 days though, which I've spent ensconced on my couch, wrapped in blankets? Sunny. Gorgeous. Gotta hand it to those Seattle weather gods, their timing is always spot on for a little Cowbell fuckery.

The boys were not happy with me. They expect some dog park action on sunny days, not for their mom to be buried under a blanket hacking and snorting snot around.

I do have to say that Teen Demon made banana and chocolate chip pancakes this morning, which the son and I greatly appreciated. Love that girl. Of course, the pancake maker is not expected to be the kitchen cleaner as well, which normally works out fine. Today, however, engulfed in this sickery, the ensuing chaos of the kitchen was enough to send me straight back to the couch. The son washed dishes though, in exchange for me messing around with our computer router to accomplish some crap or other he wanted to do with his video games. So really the whole mom sickness thing wasn't too awful today.


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We interrupt this program with some breaking news from This Old Motherfucking House. The son has informed me, literally at just this moment, that we have leak under the kitchen sink. Fuck. Hold on ...

OK. I'm back. Not to worry folks, only a loose pipe fitting. Just my bastard of a house having a little chuckle, throwing some homeowner hijinx into the mix. Yeah, the fun just never stops does it? The son was good enough to sop up the water with the already ruined roll of paper towels, so it's all good.
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So anyway, last night was Dads' Night for the wrestling team. The dads escort their wrestler or yell leader out to the mat, photos are taken, dad and progeny are introduced to the teeming stands. Kind of a way to honor and thank the parents, which is cool. On moms night, the moms got flowers. Dad's night is also Senior Night, when they showcase the senior athletes and team captains, so it was a special night for Teen Demon, this being her culminating year of high school.

(Teen Demon is second from the right, bottom.)

Male Offspring was Teen Demon's stand-in dad last year, and he wanted to escort her again this year. Except he was sick. He was supposed to be wrestling as well, but that wasn't an option, given his inflamed throat and swollen glands. Anyway, we roused ourselves from couch and bed, showered and got ourselves to the gym on time.


This is them, making the walk out to the mat. Male Offspring was the only one of the "dads" to bring flowers, so that scored him points for the 2nd year in a row.

Isn't he such a good pseudo-dad? This picture makes me want to smile and cry at the same time.

How did they get this old so fast? He's just starting to edge out his big sister in height. (He's already passed the Bohemian.) She's going to be gone to college before I know it. I can't even think about how much I'll miss her. Anyway, the team won the match, sans Male Offspring's wrestling prowess, Teen Demon got her senior's medal and her flowers, and another Dads' Night came and went.