Happy today for:

a child who is old enough to remove his own ticks and patch his own scrapes and road rash from crashing the recumbent bike! I spoil him too much by doing his laundry when I need pieces to "fill in a load" but I would MUCH rather do that than EVER, EVER have to deal with bodily fluids again in my life. I am not the kind of mom who kindly held your hair back while you puked and wiped your mouth after you puked. I stood outside the bathroom door and shouted, "make it in the toilet!" The times I did have to clean up vomit and do puke laundry I at the least gagged the entire time and sometimes actually sympathetic vomited. Nope, never a nurse shall I be.