March 23, 2005
The Yeti Takes Up Barfblogging
filed under: DadditudesMatthew Baldwin, the dadblogger by whom all other dadbloggers should be judged, describes his family's run-in with the flu. He concentrates less on the barfing part (a favorite of mine) and more on the "daddy whining on the couch" part, which I indulged in heartily but, for modesty's sake, minimized in my flu coverage.
Anyway, the Baldwins had the day that every young family fears:
"And then came Sunday -- Palm Sunday, according to the calendar, but that we in the Baldwin household shall forever remember as "That One Day When We Were Totally Sick, Holy Shit Were We Ever Sick That Day."
Here's the rest. And if you've never read Defective Yeti, you can spend worse time online than going through the entire files of his dadblogging category "Squirrely, The."
Side note: I second his recommendation of the Busy Ball Popper as a childrearing supplement, not only because it fascinates the tots for minutes on end, but because it makes so much ruckus that you can safely nap out while it's in use - if the kid wanders off, the sudden silence will wake you in a shot.
Posted by rjt at March 23, 2005 10:38 AM