07 October 2010

My Kids Have It All

"IT ALL" currently includes:

• 19 wasp stings, on two bodies;
• raging poison oak;
• two wicked paper cuts;
• one blistered, swollen, crazy-allergy-response, 5-inch in diameter bug bite;
• healing blisters from new soccer shoes;
• one really, really bad attitude.

We've been powering through ice packs, benadryl, ibuprofen, neosporin, and bandaids. None of that is helping Little T, who is afflicted with the really, really bad attitude.

Nature is overrated. As are 4 year-olds.

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1 comment:

Teacher Mommy said...

Um, yeah. DramaBoy ended up in bed very early last night due to a bad attitude. Thankfully, sleep cured it. TEMPORARILY.

You, my dear, are in the trenches right now.

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