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Posted
5 December 2007 @ 4pm

Tagged: Family, Fun, History, Humor, Memories, Parenting

Seesaw

Let’s see… the last two weeks have included a number of ups and downs:

  • Arrive in Portland for a fun weekend getaway (up!)
  • Oldest daughter immediately gets sick with a stomach virus (down!)
  • Daughter recovers so we visit old friends, eat out, and see the sights (up!)
  • Return to Seattle and get stuck in mammoth traffic jams (down!)
  • A new work week begins (up?)
  • Youngest daughter gets sick with a stomach virus at school, vomits twice at home (down!)
  • Daughter still sick the next day but wife volunteers to stay home with her. Daughter recovers (up!)
  • I get sick with a stomach virus (down!) but I don’t throw up (up!)
  • It snows in Seattle over the weekend (way up!)
  • But then it melts and a record-breaking rain storm overwhelms our downspout drain and floods Western Washington (way down!)
  • Roto-Rooter clears our downspout drain (up!) but can’t do anything about the regional flooding (down!)
  • Wife has birthday and we all go out for dinner and cupcakes (up!)
  • Later that night oldest daughter vomits entire stomach contents in bed (down!)
  • I’m cleaning up vomit in the middle of the night (way down!)
  • The next morning she is fine and goes to school (up!)
  • Today, youngest daughter gets knocked down in the school yard, hits head on asphalt, school calls to come pick her up (down!)
  • The sky does not fall (up!)

So what next?

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