Um, you know how I referred to how well our family works together as a team-last night would have been the perfect example. Let me precursor this by saying that due to Alex starting school, new bugs and germs have found their way into our household. Last week already Alex had his first bout w/ the flu, which he so graciously passed along to Laura.
Define teamwork: Alex and I are sitting at the dining room table working on a puzzle, when Laura approaches us clearly looking ill and very feverish (she was on the couch w/ her dad), she props her head in my lap and proceeds to vomit. The motherly instinct in me cups my hands, and tries to contain the vomit within my hands and lap (meanwhile self-coaching myself not to gag-Jason is the vomit cleaner-upper in our family) as I'm yelling for Jason to get a bucket. Alex, the clean freak watches on in horror; meanwhile Ainslee comes walking around the corner curious to all the commotion-heading straight for the vomit. Quickly, I tell Alex to grab her (which I typically don't let him carry her around-but I was desperate!) and take her into the living room and entertain her. Shortly thereafter, Jason shows up w/ the bucket. . . It was if we had practiced that ensemble our whole lives. . . . I'm still laughing about it today.
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