things i've learned

in the past couple of weeks.

disclaimer: due to the graphic nature of this post, especially if you don't have children and haven't experienced uncontrollable vomit, you may not want to continue.


- that i didn't really know things could get worse than a couple of snow days stuck inside.
- oh, but they can.
- two weeks. one ear infection. one GI bug passed from one boy to the next. and one prescription for amoxicillin that wreaked havoc on liam's digestive system and spread his 24-hour GI bug across 4 days. boo.
- how grateful i am that we are near our families.
- how grateful i am for zumba.  i kicked its ass today. that doesn't even make sense, but i hadn't exercised in a week and man, it felt good.
- i hate exercising, so that's how desperate i was to be out of the house without a poor little man clinging to me.
- i love when that certain little one lays his head on my shoulder and doesn't move for hours on end, but his normal personality is so much more, that i didn't realize how much i wanted my crazy monkey back.
- that even though it may not seem like it, it's better to be thrown up on than to clean up vomit from cracks in your hardwood floors.
- how finn can so easily pick up the slack of liam's missing energy and keep us all laughing.
- how it's really, really hard to have twins. (don't worry, i didn't just learn that one, i was just reminded)
- especially when they're not old enough to realize why their worlds are turned upside down.
- that having your husband around for all of the bodily fluids is invaluable.
- especially when said husband is an ER doc and smells don't bother him.
- that pedialyte is disgusting.
- that i've never wanted to be able to sleep in so badly in my life.
- that i am so extremely grateful for my healthy babes that make me want to tear my hair out sometimes, but really are good, good boys.