Day 2687

If you’re going to have a house full of sick kids while you’re also sick, make sure one of the children is a non-judgemental infant with a smile that heals your soul.

Day 2686

Have fortified two of the babies with strong doses of daddy; now to get enough sleep to deal with the enthusiasm of the bigs when they have their turn.

Day 2685

At what mucus by volume does one cease to be human? Maybe once the mucus had a majority you’re just considered a troublingly ambulatory mucus blob.

And at fifty percent, you become a weird hybrid with an uncomfortable portmanteau: hucus? Muman?

Asking for a friend.

Day 2684

Having a sick baby while you’re sick is not to be recommended. Adding another pair of sick kids is just straight idiocy.

Day 2683

Even with all the bickering that inevitably results, you realize how much the kids entertain each other when you only send one of them to school.

Day 2682

When your dog abandons you to sleep with your visiting mom and

You realize he’s totally going to keep doing it after your husband leaves and

You’re going to be sleeping totally alone for the first time in years and

Day 2681

When your sick baby wakes up a snot monster... with booger gobs all over her little face...

But it’s still exciting because it’s the longest sleep she’s ever had in her crib.