Mommy, Wife & Friend

You never realize when you first become a mom all the things that you will do for your child.  I guess I’m feeling triumphant because I was just awakened by my 7 year old that vomited all over himself and his little brother sleeping in the bed with him.  This is the same child that threw up almost daily for the first year of his life due to a severe gag reflex.  I remember each and every day of that year how I would almost gag and throw up alongside him because of that horrible smell of vomit.  I would cringe and get teary eyed, because I just couldn’t handle the cleanup.  And the time he was sleeping in the top bunk and vomited, not IN his bed but off the side of his bed and into the dresser drawers that were not all the way closed.  I remember those days and I remember the cold sweats I would break into at the mere thought of having to clean up that mess.  But today was different.  I heard him calling for me.  I walked into his room and was faced with the reality that I would spend the next 3 hours of my evening washing every piece of bedding individually.  I had to undress him and his brother without getting that nasty stuff all over their hair and put them in a bath, because only a bath can get rid of that horrible stench.  And it didn’t bother me.  It smelled gross, but didn’t make me gag.  It looked gross, but I was able to see past it.  I had a job to do, and God knows no one else is going to do it.  So I did it.  And today I no longer fear the vomit.  Bring it on…I can handle it.