Owen just threw up all over the upstairs landing. I rushed to the top of the stairs and held his shivering, burning body as he uploaded into the porcelain bowl. We're a "sick house" again. Or still??
I'm wondering ... many families choose to live on one-parent incomes ... is it because they know one parent will be required to be at home with sick children so often? If Owen's illness lasts as long as Collin's did, Kevin will have worked "part time" (at home with a sick child, making phone calls at the kitchen table in between bouts of "Cars" and tummy rumbles) more than half of the past 30 days. Add in that it happened to be our vacation month, and that means he'll have been able to work full time one week in the past month ... and we'll have paid daycare for two kids full time for the whole month (whether they attended or not). Doesn't really add up ...
We are truly so fortunate to be in the positions we are, working the jobs we do. I know we'd make it in another boat, but I can't see how we'd really stay afloat.
By the way, Thank You, Kevin, for cleaning up the landing. : )
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