I have three kids 5 and under and it seems like sickness hits our house hard and often!

I blame the difficulty on two things:

1. whining

2. man colds.

Whining is the worst at the best of times.

My mom used to say “I can’t understand you when you whine” and I would think, “What the heck! Of course you can understand me, just listen!”  but now that I have three of my own I totally get it.

I can’t understand whining, the sound is so grating that whatever they are saying is drowned out.

Imagine someone talking to you while scraping nails on a chalkboard… except as you continue not to understand them they scrape louder.

Any form of sickness brings on whining at our house.

And whining is contagious, maybe more so than whatever bug they have, if one is whining so are the other two.

Seriously, no one can get sick, my sanity can not handle it!

Then there’s the man cold.

If there’s a man over 21 living in your house you know EXACTLY what I am talking about.

The dreaded man cold.

My husband is normally pretty healthy, but when he gets sick, it’s like the world has stopped, the end is near!

It might be the sniffles or it might be a life threatening infection!

No need to power through and act like there’s the possibility life will go on, instead you must lay in bed and moan (this part is essential).

You must shuffle out of your room regularly to take your temperature, only to sadly discover you AREN’T burning up, but concede that the thermometer that works perfectly well for the three children must be broken (it’s the only answer).

The man cold requires that you go to work and act like a human being (heaven forbid you miss a meeting) but when you are home you must cease all normal activity, you MUST watch as many idiotic YouTube videos as possible.

You can’t be around the kids (even if they’re sick too) because “you might infect them”.

You can’t eat like a normal person because you need “sick people food”, news flash- Coke Zero and marshmallows are not sick people food, eating that will not help you get better.

You can’t take medicine at regular intervals because… well let’s be honest if you did, what in the heck would you complain about?

We are coming off a month of sickness and man colds at our house and man colds are sweeping through my neighborhood.

My neighbors and I have come to a few conclusions:

1. there needs to be a sick house for the dads, they can do have their man colds together and recover on a steady diet of stupid YouTube videos, Coke Zero, and marshmallows.

2. Ear plugs are a must and should be issued at the pediatrician’s office along with the antibiotics. Sick kids are so sad but the whining is draining and at times seemingly never ending!