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?