It’s 4am. Temperatures in Seattle are at a 44 year record low of 19 degrees. People across the city are snug in their beds.
The four of us are huddled together under a pile of blankets in our king-sized bed. But the huddling is not out of love… this huddling is for WARMTH. Inside OUR house it isn’t quite freezing but it’s close at a frigid 58 degrees.
That’s right, the furnace chose THIS EXACT MOMENT of record low temperatures to STOP WORKING.
Well, if we’re exact about it, the furnace actually stopped working weeks ago. But who needs to be exact? We didn’t really notice all that much until this freezing night.
“Mommy,” whispers CJ, sitting up, “Mommy, I don’t feel good.”
“Lie DOWN!” I hiss, “You’re letting in the cold air!”
He lies back down but soon is sitting up again. ”I really don’t feel good,” he says and then HURGGGHLLLLLUGGH he starts vomiting. lots and lots of vomiting. all over ME vomiting.
WHY is it always on me? WHY?
I leap out of bed… brrr it’s cold… and peel off my saturated clothes. The sheets and blankets are soaked. The house is freezing.
“JASON STOP BELLA FROM EATING THE VOMIT!” I shout.
CJ is crying.
My nose feel sort of numb. I think I might have frost bite.
Oh the rancid smell!
And that’s the story of how my Christmas spirit froze up and then got flushed down the drain with the a putrid mess of sour smelling carrot chunks.
The end.
December 16, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Egads….
We had the same experience with our furnace yesterday morning (the third time in a month that the furnace stopped in the middle of the night) and the temp was a balmy -19 degrees – first time in 60+ years that northern CO has seen temps like that – but uh, we didn’t get the pukiness…thank god.
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December 16, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Oh no! You poor thing! I have heard a lot of people have this bug lately.
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December 16, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Umm, yuck!!! Hope he feels better soon. And that your furnace feels better soon too. It’s cold out there!
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December 16, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Really wish I hadn’t picked this entry to read when I sat down to have a snack ;)
December 16, 2008 at 1:43 pm
I was okay right up until you said carrots. Ugh…
December 16, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Oh ugh… I’m so sorry. That bug is going around our kids’ school, too.
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December 16, 2008 at 1:55 pm
It’s always carrot chunks. Why is that?
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December 16, 2008 at 1:57 pm
It could be worse? Maybe? I don’t know how but it seems like somehow it could be worse. It was 16 below here in Minnesota last night. 19 seems almost balmy compared to that. Of course I can say that because I spent the night in a warm, voit free bed.
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December 16, 2008 at 2:05 pm
thanks. i SO needed that.
*gag*
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December 16, 2008 at 2:16 pm
Ooooh no! Your poor little kiddo. I hope he feels better soon.
I hope you are able to get your furnace fixed soon. This cold weather is not going away…darn it. This is just a bit too cold for me…
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December 16, 2008 at 2:23 pm
I feel for you. That sounds like something that has happened to me. I remember something about cuddling under a blanket with Little Ethan and not once, not twice, but thrice being vomited on. It never seems to happen to the dads……
December 16, 2008 at 5:11 pm
I think it was on you b/c you didn’t believe him when he told you he didn’t feel well…. won’t make that mistake again, will you? :)
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December 16, 2008 at 6:10 pm
Ugh, double whammy. I hope he’s feeling better and it’s warmer today!
Thanks again for the shoes. ;)
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December 16, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Oh my gosh! I hope that your furnace is up and running. We lose power often and it’s horrible enough without THAT happening. No hot water to even take a shower to get the puke off! EWW!
:( Hope everything is fixed and warm for you soon.
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December 16, 2008 at 7:43 pm
oh no!! That is awful, I am so sorry.
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December 16, 2008 at 8:24 pm
I’m sorry to hear CJ was sick. I hope he starts feeling better soon! Stay warm! It’s below zero in Wisconsin and we’re wearing layers in the house, even with the furnace running. I hate winter.
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December 16, 2008 at 9:16 pm
Oh yuck! Good luck getting the furnace fixed…
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December 16, 2008 at 9:31 pm
you poor girl. seriously…go buy yourself something special and then go somewhere warm :)
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December 16, 2008 at 10:05 pm
Eeew. That’s happened around here, too…though not for quite a few years. My kids are in their twenties. But I do remember thinking to myself back then: why didn’t we teach them to say “I’m going to throw up NOW!” Instead of “I don’t feel good”?
Hope you’re staying warmer and out of the line of fire!
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December 17, 2008 at 8:05 am
Oh, I’m so sorry. Looks like you got your furnace fixed though? I, for one, cannot believe Seattle schools are closed today because of the threat of 2 inches. I’m going insane over here with little kid fatigue!
December 17, 2008 at 11:48 am
oh no!!! Our water heater decided to keep turning off the pilot light this last week so everytime we wanted hot water, we’d have to light the pilot light, go wait for 15 mins and get a lukewarm shower and then it would turn ICE COLD just before you were totally rinsed off. Then the heater in my car stopped working, so after a lukewarm shower with a cold finale, I would get in my cold car and drive 30 mins to work. So I hope you get your furnace fixed because it’s NOT FAIR for crap like this to happen to us! I’m definitely not laughing… I’ll let you come stay with me in my warm house. :)
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December 17, 2008 at 12:37 pm
Oh good heavens! Sounds like a reallly bad night! Hope the little one is done puking. That sucks. Cold and sick. And vomit smelling. I bet you could have turned that into a 12 days of Christmas post! lol
December 17, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Oh yuck.
December 17, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Yours in sympathy. Nothing like a little horking to make you move quickly, huh?
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December 17, 2008 at 1:28 pm
Serious yuck. And I WAS eating pieces of butternut squash while reading. NOT eating any more.
Get that darn heater fixed this instant!
December 17, 2008 at 7:09 pm
I am SO not laughing, because this can and DOES happen to me. Puke is the worst. The absolute worst. Especially after red kool aid…..
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December 17, 2008 at 7:13 pm
Yikes! I would never laugh. :)
December 17, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Ha ha ha ha ha! See, I laugh cuz its ALREADY happened to me. ‘Cept the furnace went out and we had a kid pukin’ in our bed on *separate* nights. You get extra special brownies points for crossin’ them off the ‘to do’ list at the same time. ;-)
December 17, 2008 at 9:45 pm
Nothing quite like the smell of child puke, mmmm!
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December 17, 2008 at 11:24 pm
I feel for you. We were without water for two days due to this fantastic cold spell. And I too am the most frequent recipient of puke in our house. Seems like mommies are vomit magnets. Aren’t we just so lucky?
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December 22, 2008 at 11:50 am
Ahh!! I remember doing that in my parent’s bed. It’s been over thirty years and I remember their reaction like it was yesterday. They just ran in two different directions leaving me sitting in the middle of my puke one yelling to the other, “You clean it up”. Nice huh?
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