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August 13, 2008 | Parenting, The Pink One, tourists

We are on a 16 hour road trip and Claudia has a fever.

She refuses to take medicine.

Let me explain that Claudia always refuses to take medicine unlike her brother (and mother, to be honest) who will take medicine just because someone else is sick and it tastes good and/or makes you feel better. In fact yesterday when she was first ill we had this awesome fight where she refused to take some Tylenol to bring down the fever and I (being the mature lady that I am) threatened to take her to the hospital instead where they would surely give her an IV and when that didn’t work I told her if she let the fever get to high her brain could boil.

Even though she didn’t believe any of my threats her brother has been going around for about 20 hours now telling people that his sister had brain damage which is kind of a hilarious side effect.

Back to today - we are somewhere in the middle of Tennessee. I am in the car with both children and my Mother-in-Law and Father-in-Law and Claudia has a fever. She is very rosy cheeked and hot. She is sad and has a headache. We decide to stop at the first place we see (in this case a Wal-Mart. Apparently Tennessee is infested with Wal-Marts. Seriously they are omnipresent here.) and we stop to buy something that will help get rid of the headache and fever.

I seriously take her into this Super Wal-Mart and name every single flavor of every single children’s fever medication known to man. She hates them all. We finally decide on some dye-free Tylenol business that she used to take when she was a baby. It seemed that this was the closest to her favorite medicine - stool softener - which is the only medicine that Claudia will take orally.

No. The irony is not lost on me.

We get to the parking lot and Claudia is already crying even though her Grandmother is carrying her. After all three adults try unsuccessfully to get her to drink a teaspoon of medicine that tastes like candy I resort to more threats.

“If you don’t drink that by the time I count to three I am going to walk right back in that store and buy the kind of medicine that goes in your butt.”

And inexplicably she agree to this.

Twenty minutes later, after consulting with pharmacists and being led on wild goose chases by pharmacy techs I return empty handed. While it is very clear what I need it turns out that this particular Wal-Mart doesn’t carry it.

I go back to the car empty handed.* To which Claudia replies, under her breath “How unfortunate.”

MY FOUR YEAR OLD HAS A VERY STRONG GRASP OF SARCASM. She is also quite strong in vocabulary.

As I told Devra years ago (before my own children could talk this well) smartassery begets smartassery.

I have reaped what I have sown. I accidentally taught my four year old daughter to be a sarcastic bitch.

I also accidentally raised someone who would rather have something shoved up her ass than do something much more pleasant against her will.

We are so screwed when she becomes a teenager.

* Where my children were having this argument “She said she choosed the pharmacy.” “No! I said I choosed the suppository!”

Posted by Sarah @ 6:46 pm | 33 Comments  

The Big News

July 6, 2008 | BlogHer, D.C. Metro Moms Blog, Mom Road Trip, Other Bloggers, badassery, tourists

So remember forever ago when I told you that I had something really exciting happening in July and I told you I would tell you what it was and then I never mentioned it again?

Well, I couldn’t tell you yet because we had to wait for all of the legal stuff to get taken care of. But I can tell you now.

I’m going on a road trip to BlogHer!

That’s right. You heard me. Me and three other suckers from the Silicon Valley Mom’s Blogs (DC Metro Moms Blog, Chicago Moms Blog and the soon to be launched Rocky Mountain Moms Blog) will be driving to San Francisco.

I know it sounds crazy. Yes, I know it is 2823 miles from Washington DC to San Francisco, but we are getting a Hybrid Chevy Tahoe to drive and I don’t have to pay for the gas.

I hope you will check out our website. Devra and I will be leaving here on Saturday. We drive to Chicago to pick up Meagan, then to Omaha, then we will pick up Aviva in Colorado. The next day we will stop in Salt Lake City, Utah and the day after that Reno, Nevada. On Thursday we will stop off in Silicon Valley to pick up Jill and then we will show up at the hotel for BlogHer.

We will be blogging and posting videos the whole time.

I realize that a road trip of four Moms going to a blogging convention may earn me a nomination into the nerd hall of fame, but I expect it to be a great time.

Did I mention you can follow us on Twitter?

road trip

Posted by Sarah @ 3:43 pm | 41 Comments  

Aaaaaaah. That’s Better.

July 2, 2008 | tourists

Sure I am sort of smashed in the front corner of the front bedroom and sure there is only one tiny little bar, and no it isn’t our connection I am stealing it from a neighbor, but I have internet at the beach house!

And now that I have spent 45 minutes trying to establish this fact I am going to go read a book and relax.

That is what normal people do on vacation that aren’t hopelessly addicted to the internet, right?

Right?

Does anyone even remember what people did before blogs? (and nobody say they had real jobs either or I’ll come over there.)

Posted by Sarah @ 3:52 pm | 26 Comments  

Washington Monument Reflected in the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

October 9, 2007 | Pictures, tourists

Washington Monument Reflected in the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Originally uploaded by Sarah606


Posted by Sarah @ 5:21 pm | 11 Comments  

The Mystery Bruise

September 8, 2007 | tourists

When I was on vacation I ended up with a mystery bruise on my thigh.

You know - one of those bruises that you just don’t have any idea where it came from?

I was completely clueless, but I had been doing a lot of swimming with little kids and a lot of drinking with the adults after the kids went to bed. So really it could have come from anywhere.

Then - I bashed my bruise on the corner of the dresser in the room I was sleeping in. Again, apparently. It was extraordinarily painful.

Mystery solved.

Posted by Sarah @ 8:01 am | 8 Comments  
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