this one is about the other end

Here at the House O' Boils & Contagion the hours are counting down to my last final. We have tacked on the Contagion to our name thanks to a sobbing call last night from Nathaniel. My husband stumbled into his room and was informed mournfully, "Daddy, I burp."

Not even 2.5 and he knows the value of understatement! Genius child.

Yes, he had "burped," and he did so repeatedly and copiously for the rest of the night. I crawled into our lumpy hard ancient futon guest bed with him and a bucket and spent the rest of the night cuddling my little sickie and handing him the bucket periodically.

At 6:00 a.m. precisely he patted my cheek gently to wake me up and whispered that it was "morning, Mama. Go downstairs time!" When I cracked open one bleary eye and begged gently suggested that he sleep some more with me in the comfy and cozy bed he scolded me. "Mama. It morning time. My* get up now! Mama get up now!"

We both climbed off the bed, him with verve and energy, me with, well, not-verve, but I didn't go downstairs. My husband went downstairs with the sick but still highly mobile child and I crawled into bed for a few hours of sleep.

A few hours later my husband went off to work and Nathaniel and I sat down on the couch together. My Wills & Trust exam is on Monday and I'm woefully underprepared, but a sick kid needs his Mama and so we cuddled quietly on the couch for hours and I did not think about Wills & Trusts.

While I didn't learn anything about devises or estates today, I did make some notable discoveries. YouTube user dashloc has a keen eye for TGVs, and shadofax96, aged 22, has a passion for garbage trucks that Nathaniel shares. The oeuvre of marshlandsd is sadly limited to one work -- but what a work it is. I particularly like the electronica backbeat on that one; it enhances the industrial sounds of the garbage truck.

It's not Wills & Trusts, but we had a good quiet day together, the two of us. By the end of the day he was feeling much better.

* Nathaniel's self-referential pronoun of choice. Usually heard in popular phrases such as "my do it" or "my want it" or "my eat it."

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[Rayne of Terror]

Henry will love the garbage truck video. All week he waits for "blue tuck" to come get the garbage.

We all got sick right before my Decedents exam and I had to postpone it a few days. It went all right, on the whole easier than I expected.

Good luck.