All For One and All Will Poop
by JAK’s guest mom blogger from Racine, Shannon Barsch
A few Sundays ago my son Kadyn was complaining that his tummy hurts and within record breaking speed he ran from the couch to the bathroom. Seconds later, noises of puking, groaning and diarrhea creep out from behind the closed door. Then I hear “Mommy?”… at this point I am afraid to enter, unsure of what I may find and not to mention smell. So I put on my “mommy badge”, take a deep breath, and head on in. Read More…
Wheew! Everything made it into the toilet and the only evidence left behind is the unforgiving smell that will linger in the air the rest of the day.
Move ahead a few days and every parent’s nightmare is unfolding without my knowledge...
Upstairs my youngest son is napping, or should I say supposed to be napping. All of the sudden, I hear a loud THUMP! I think to myself “Oh great, I guess he is up from his nap already.” So I march upstairs and open his door, observe there in disbelief and tell myself I must be dreaming. Nope, reality sets in. There, standing in front of me is my beloved son Sean, naked from the waist down, with the smell of poop permeating through the air. Quickly. I examine the scene and find his missing diaper laying there on the floor with the poop not in the diaper, but laying next to it….YUCK!!!!!!!!!!!! (yes, notice the number of exclamation points here!)
I scan the room and there is poop EVERYWHERE! Even worse…it's in his hands! Never have I been so disgusted. After his bath, we head back to his room with a bucket of bleach water and a garbage bag. I start to throw away things that I just don’t feel can ever be fully clean again and douse the remainder with bleach water a few times over. So an hour and half later, the smell of poop is replaced by bleach.
A few days later it’s my middle child’s turn…
After lunch, Ethan falls asleep on the couch, which puts me into pre-panic mode….this child hasn’t napped from the day he turned two. But maybe, just maybe, it’s a fluke. One can hope, right?! Not long after, I hear him moaning as he makes his dash to the bathroom. Again, here come those noises from earlier in the week, this time followed with “Mommy, help me”… I walk in, only to inhale that dreaded poopy stench. In short order, the look of panic overwhelms his face. I know that look all too well and I quickly position his head over the toilet bowl. There goes my poor little guy, puking everything he has ever eaten into the toilet. Whew, potential disaster avoided and off to the couch we go for some much needed cuddling time.
Slowly the afternoon gets better…everyone seems healthy and I think we are all in the clear. All three boys and I are watching Scooby and the youngest is sitting on my lap cuddling. I think to myself, “Wow, this is great: everyone is relaxed, no one is screaming, fighting or chasing someone… this is the life”. It seems that as soon as those words came to my head, from out of nowhere, there is a dreadful noise and in seconds there is puke covering me from the knees down to my slippers… “Uh oh, Mommy” is all Sean says as he looks at me with the all the love in the world.
So this is my life…puke, poop and bleach. Some may not understand and that’s ok, but I am glad I took the “mommy road”. Despite all the gross stuff, each smile and call of the word Mommy makes it all worth it!
In addition to Shannon being the mother of 3 young boys, she's married, and volunteers her time to her children's school's fundraising efforts and contributes to the Just Add Kids Happenings Calendar of Events.
by JAK’s guest mom blogger from Racine, Shannon Barsch
A few Sundays ago my son Kadyn was complaining that his tummy hurts and within record breaking speed he ran from the couch to the bathroom. Seconds later, noises of puking, groaning and diarrhea creep out from behind the closed door. Then I hear “Mommy?”… at this point I am afraid to enter, unsure of what I may find and not to mention smell. So I put on my “mommy badge”, take a deep breath, and head on in. Read More…
Wheew! Everything made it into the toilet and the only evidence left behind is the unforgiving smell that will linger in the air the rest of the day.
Move ahead a few days and every parent’s nightmare is unfolding without my knowledge...
Upstairs my youngest son is napping, or should I say supposed to be napping. All of the sudden, I hear a loud THUMP! I think to myself “Oh great, I guess he is up from his nap already.” So I march upstairs and open his door, observe there in disbelief and tell myself I must be dreaming. Nope, reality sets in. There, standing in front of me is my beloved son Sean, naked from the waist down, with the smell of poop permeating through the air. Quickly. I examine the scene and find his missing diaper laying there on the floor with the poop not in the diaper, but laying next to it….YUCK!!!!!!!!!!!! (yes, notice the number of exclamation points here!)
I scan the room and there is poop EVERYWHERE! Even worse…it's in his hands! Never have I been so disgusted. After his bath, we head back to his room with a bucket of bleach water and a garbage bag. I start to throw away things that I just don’t feel can ever be fully clean again and douse the remainder with bleach water a few times over. So an hour and half later, the smell of poop is replaced by bleach.
A few days later it’s my middle child’s turn…
After lunch, Ethan falls asleep on the couch, which puts me into pre-panic mode….this child hasn’t napped from the day he turned two. But maybe, just maybe, it’s a fluke. One can hope, right?! Not long after, I hear him moaning as he makes his dash to the bathroom. Again, here come those noises from earlier in the week, this time followed with “Mommy, help me”… I walk in, only to inhale that dreaded poopy stench. In short order, the look of panic overwhelms his face. I know that look all too well and I quickly position his head over the toilet bowl. There goes my poor little guy, puking everything he has ever eaten into the toilet. Whew, potential disaster avoided and off to the couch we go for some much needed cuddling time.
Slowly the afternoon gets better…everyone seems healthy and I think we are all in the clear. All three boys and I are watching Scooby and the youngest is sitting on my lap cuddling. I think to myself, “Wow, this is great: everyone is relaxed, no one is screaming, fighting or chasing someone… this is the life”. It seems that as soon as those words came to my head, from out of nowhere, there is a dreadful noise and in seconds there is puke covering me from the knees down to my slippers… “Uh oh, Mommy” is all Sean says as he looks at me with the all the love in the world.
So this is my life…puke, poop and bleach. Some may not understand and that’s ok, but I am glad I took the “mommy road”. Despite all the gross stuff, each smile and call of the word Mommy makes it all worth it!
In addition to Shannon being the mother of 3 young boys, she's married, and volunteers her time to her children's school's fundraising efforts and contributes to the Just Add Kids Happenings Calendar of Events.
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