I have had a bad day. First I go to my daughter to babysit the infant and I ask her husband if the baby has eaten yet he says yes, he has and is ready to wake. then he wakes up hungry find the bottle on the table, and start feeding him, about half a bottle, then he comes out of the shower and says didn’t you know that bottle has beein sitting there since Saturday? and I go no I didn’t I thought that was a bottle which you just fed him from. So the baby gets sick. Vomiting, call the doctors, they say keep an eye on him. The he seems ok, and I leave to the other four grandchildren and take them to school and I ask them to tell me give me a number from zero to ten, in accordance to the kind of day they had this first day back from vacation. mostly fives, and two tens. great I think.
Then we go home and start homework with them forgetting the tea I had sitting on the table, then one of them keeps coming how do you do this now do you do that? After a while I find myself doing her homework for her.
then the boy sits on the table and I say get off from that table, cause you may fall fd, and as soon as I say that plump he falls, and whines.
Then the little girl turns over the tea cup and all the homework is soaking wet and she says now what, and I say we’ll hang them up on the back of the chairs see if they dry out before your mama comes home.
and here she comes, and takes one look at the hanging pieces of paper, and exclaims ‘your teacher will certainly chuck that into the garbage’ and then the girl starts bowling like no tomorrow.
Then I think this day cannot get any worse, when I get home news the baby still vomiting and they are going to take him to the doctor . by this time my back is aching, my migraine grinding, and the neuropathy acting up with an ongoing neuralgia to boot.
finding my wife sitting in front of the TV set watching her favorite show, a series of documented cases of gruesome murders. my first tempttion is to grab a bottle of moonshine i have hidden in my desk, but think better of it, she may glean my deft hand, usually, very able and subtle in making things suddenly appear and disappear, but then my new year resolution of drying out hits me front and center.
Deal with it!