better than the movies

You know when you watch a movie, and they show a scene where everything is so upside down and topsy-turvy and crazy that it's not really possible? Or, really it is possible - and you laugh knowing you could live out a scene like that at your house?

We had those scenes today - straight out of the best comedy ever, in fact better than the best comedy because it was real, and you can't script real life like this!

The day didn't start out very funny, in fact it was pathetic waking up feeling like your body was a piece of lead. Our throats hurt, nose was stuffy, head hurt and in all the kiddos colds from this week came crashing in all at once. The children were up and Madeleine had even gotten ready for church on her own....when Bryson and I realized we were so sick we couldn't get ourselves to church. I called our neighbors, and they were willing to have Madeleine go into church with them, and then she'd come home with another family that lives in the neighboring building. I tried to go back to bed, but the boys were anxiously engaged in battling things out and I stumbled out to the couch while Bryson Sr. slept for a few hours.

A little while after the boys had some breakfast (the mommy award this morning was letting everyone get their own cereal), Jacob was laying on the floor watching a show (okay that was the 2nd mommy award) and looked up at me telling me his head hurt. Then his tummy hurt. Suddenly he was dancing around and saying he needed to throw up - so we ran down to the bathroom and up came breakfast. I was blown away - no fever, he had been feeling better from his cold, but throughout the day everything came up from his little tummy and nothing was staying down.

The highlight to the sickness came during late afternoon, when we were trying to get dinner cooked, and still working on writing assignments for Madeleine & Bryson to be turned in tomorrow. Jacob started his dance around, he seriously dislikes going down the hallway to the bathroom alone (we don't have a large place, so I'm still not sure why he dislikes the hallway so much!), and suddenly he decided to run down the hallway which was the signal that this was serious! I heard the splatter of Gatorade hitting the floor and right after Bryson Sr. ran down the hallway and then I heard them both turning back towards the kitchen and that is when I saw a fountain shooting out of Jacob's mouth and then a few seconds later they were at the kitchen sink where I hoped there would be less clean-up than the previous two spots.

It turned out, that Jacob threw-up most of the liquid in the hallway and then when Bryson scooped him up, there was a 2nd surge that came up and that was what came pouring out and hit the wall and went all over the kitchen floor. It was the craziest 2 minutes we've had in our house in a long time....and of course the clean-up was about 100 times as long!

After that was cleaned up, dinner was eaten and we were moving onto the next phase of the night - Bryson Jr. came up to me and told me he wanted to act out a funny joke he had seen on America's Funniest Home Videos. He had a rubber band in hand, and was going to jimmy rig the water sprayer attached to the kitchen sink to try and trick Bryson Sr. I told him this might not be the night to play this joke - we'd already had a lot of cleaning up to do, and another time would be better to laugh at this joke. I didn't stay the course to find out what he was doing, as I was finishing up editing Madeleine's writing. However, I figured out about 20 minutes later what Bryson Jr. had ended up deciding to do ---- I went in to the kitchen and needed to rinse something off when I turned on the water and a different kind of fountain than before came shooting out of the kitchen sprayer, right past me, and onto the fridge where all my papers were completely soaked! I turned off the water and started to laugh - turning to Bryson Jr. who had come running into the kitchen when he heard my cry of surprise. He was laughing, and it helped me to remember to laugh through the moment...because it really was funny, and thankfully I didn't get wet....my papers were soaked but thankfully there was nothing super important.

We went on to wrap-up the night, and I popped into the kitchen to get Jacob a drink of water after another throw-up incident, when I turned on the water and got a shot of water right on my arm! That little turkey had rigged the water sprayer up again - AND I fell for it again!

In a way it was nice to find the comic relief in the situations of today - having most of us sick, and stuck inside a tiny apartment had some moments of disaster. However, when looking at the big picture I realized that there are my 'I Love Lucy' episodes on a daily basis, and it really is so much better to laugh about things than cry, or pout, or whine, or get upset. Still learning on this - but hopefully it's an uphill progression in learning :)