Story Problem:
He stumbles into the room last night, saying his tummy hurts and trying to figure out where to go, and we are too tired to put it together soon enough and yep! barfs all over the carpet by our bed.
Instructions:
In the comments section, please number your answers 1 to 10. Indicate a J (Jessica) or a R (Ryan) depending on who would have responding that way to the above-mentioned incident.
1. Whisked child into the bathroom and commanded child to not move until instructed to do so.
2. Thought "Dang! No Pilates class tomorrow" (due to sick child staying home from school)
3. Immediately pulled out the following item and cleaned the whole carpet, rinsing 3 times, at 1 am. (Prompting Emma to say upon awakening, "I saw the carpet cleaner and knew ___ must have been up cleaning someone's throw up last night.")
4. Wondered if he/she could avoid coming into contact with barfer(or any other potentially germy member of the family) for the next 72 hours.
5. Constructed this elaborate blanket/tablecloth pathway from sick bed to toilet, complete with buckets along the way for stray barf.
6. Drew a bath and comforted sick child.
7. Retched and retched and retched while trying to at least contribute to massive clean up going on.
8. Wondered how soon he/she could return to bed, before spouse felt gypped.
9. Instituted a "barf training class" tonight before putting children to bed, lest someone else come down with the bug overnight.
10. Refused to allow starving child near any food the next morning until lunchtime, while other parent tried to plead starving child's case.
TUNE IN TOMORROW FOR ANSWERS AND BONUS "BARF TRAINING" VIDEO.
(There will be a prize...so put your thinking caps on.)
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