In the last week I have cleaned up an enormous amount puke. All but one kiddo has had a run of the runs...outta both ends. In general, parents deal with more bodily fluids than they ever thought possible. Parenthood runs a close second to an emergency room nurse, in the gross out factor. I have never easily been grossed-out, but being a mommy has certainly tested my limits. One of my sons was an amazing artist for a period. His choice of media: Poop. It was an absolutely wonderful time in our lives. A time, when every time Id open his bedroom door after a nap or in the morning, I would be greeted with one of his amazing masterpieces. Oh the joy! To those of you who have never had an artist like this, you may be blown away. According to the internet...Its not that uncommon. News that really helped keep me from rushing him to the nearest psychologist. Ok...Its normal...painting with poop.....normal...no diagnosis needed....normal, yet so very disgusting.
It came to my attention a few months back, how desensitized I've become to pee, puke and poop. Our family recently took a mini-vacation to Disneyland. My sister met us there to spend some time with her nieces and nephews. Her babies are a small business and 2 very spoiled four legged friends. Her childcare experience falls under the label of "cool Aunt". Anyway, she volunteered to watch the then 6mo. old, while the rest of us went on a ride. We came back to hysterics. "Your baby puked on me....like on me" Um...yea...ok.(Me) " No you don't understand...like on me, on my shirt, in my mouth...it was so disgusting" uhhh ok.(Me) " You don't seem bothered by this...you don't understand how gross it was..it was so bad". I'm guessing our perception of a bad puking incident is very different from each others. I didn't see any blood. The baby was still conscience. Their clothes we still wearable. In the scheme of things...not so bad. Now to her, this was horrible, yucky in a way that was incomprehensible. Probably scared her in a way that the idea of having children in the future, got even father pushed back on the ole' burner. Ask her about it today, she will still adamantly profess how intense it was for her. Those future unborns probably need to chill a bit on that back burner. She'll need to build up a tolerance for one of the dirtiest jobs out there- Parenthood!
Well I wrote a long comment and it was lost. Here's the short version.
ReplyDeleteI like this. I'm jealous of your balls. I think about escaping materialistic capitalism on the daily...
I'd like to hear more about what it is your doing. Your a good story teller, always were. I like the stuff about your sons masterfeces, doubt many will tho lol. Made me laugh.
Moar please.
I really appreciate your feedback! Thank you! Wish I could have read the long one!!!
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