Last Night…

Last night I was babysitting for these 2 kids that I nanny for and things were going fine…like always.  I had put the kids to bed and was just watching TV when I heard Kate (she’s 2 and a half) coughing and start to cry.  At first, I don’t think anything of it….I knew she had a little cold and thought maybe the crying was simply a ploy of hers to get me to come up stairs.  I waited about a minute, but realized that the crying was pretty hysterical, so I got up to see what was wrong.  Kate was kneeling over her pillow on her bed and had vomited over everything.  I mean there was not a sheet, blanket, or part of her that was clean.  I went over to her and her skin was burning up, so I took off her sleeper (which was covered with thow up anyway) and took her downstairs to the couch.  After propping her up on pillows, turning on Toy Story 2, and putting a pan with some water in it on the floor (just in case) I went back upstairs and stripped her bed.  After that was done, I went back downstairs and sat with Kate while she fell back to sleep….of course she did get sick a few more times before that happened.  I think I washed my hands like 10 times in an hour.  I felt so bad for her because I know how much I dislike being sick and I know that the whole process scared her, but at the same time I didn’t want to get too close to her and risk getting vomit on my clothes…which happened anyway.  Her parents were at a Christmas part at the Flight Museum and came home as quickly as they could (about an hour later) and when they finally arrived home they proceeded to wake Kate up and rock her in their arms, which did not help Kate’s situation any…so she got sick one more time before I escaped out the door.  This is the second time that I have had to babysit a sick child and it is not something I look forward to.  I know that when I get married and have kids I will have to deal with this…but hopefully my husband will take care of it instead.  Yeah right, I know….guys seem to have an even harder time handling these types of  things than girls.

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So I was re-reading this blog, and noticed that it kind of makes it sound like I don’t like my kids…but that is definitely not the case.  Kate and her brother Will are two of the sweetest kids (most of the time..) and I love watching how much they have changed over the year since I started watching them.  Children just have such an innocence to them and are able to view the world with such optimism.  I believe that they have a lot to teach us adults if we would only slow down and listen to them. It always reminds me about what God says in the Bible….that we should have the faith of a child.  They are just able to trust and believe in things so easily…and as we grow older we tend to become more cynical and skeptical about life and the things that we cannot logically/scientifically prove.

COMMENTS (since this is an old myspace post)

Jeff: wow that sounds like a real entertaining night.  not really but felt like i probably should say something.

Scott: Sounds like my New Year’s Eve party.  Except I was looking for buckets and cleaning up after my friends, and not little kids.