Sacred Beliefs
April 18, 2006
I believe that if you are stuck at home with a sick baby for the third day in a row, are getting sick yourself, are spending most of your time cleaning either 1) snot of various colors and consistencies, 2) antibiotic-fueled diarrhea or 3) hacking-cough-fueled vomit, and then the rest of the time trying to entertain a furious child who! will! not! be! entertained! and your throat hurts and the baby threw a spoon at your head and there is poop on your jeans but you aren't even going to change them because WHAT IS THE POINT ANYMORE, I firmly believe it is perfectly acceptable to eat a chocolate Easter bunny for breakfast.
In fact, I think it should be downright required.
Of course. Did you give some to Noah too? Because he looks extremely satisfied in the background. Maybe
aww poor Noah - I hope he feels better soon.
and you as well.
and I think chocolate bunnies for breakfast are always acceptable!
Better still if said bunny were to be filled with peanut butter.
And I think the actual requirement part of it is that you wash the bunny down with a couple of margaritas...
Feel better!!
I think you should eat a chocolate elephant. That's the only way to survive baby ear infections. And the margaritas from the previous commenter. You'll feel much better. I do.
Hmm, he doesn't *look* furious.
At least it was a good Lindt chocolate bunny...mine is Russell Stover so I haven't been desperate enough to eat its head yet. But then, I don't have poop on my jeans either.
I totally agree. But instead of cake, yesterday morning I ate bunny cake (not a real bunny, just yellow cake in the shape of a bunny). And now your can see why I don't post ever - b/c I sound like a TOTAL DORK!
Two! Posts! In! A! Consecutive! Row!
Sweet.
That is soooo acceptable. Don't stop till the jellybeans are gone..
i think you might need to crack into the smirmoff to knock it back, lady. it'll make your throat feel better. and the poop will smell oh so sweet.
Jeans? At home? I start to itch if I'm inside my house for longer than 10 minutes and I haven't taken off my underwear and put on a pair of sweatpants. Perhaps I'm buying the wrong kind of jeans.
Sorry about the sickness- hope you are both feeling better soon.
I don't blame you about the bunny. In fact I am slightly jealous because that is no ordinary chocolate bunny...but the illusive Lindts bunny...the best bunny out there!
Psst...put some vodka in the chocolate bunny (or other liquor, I think maybe Bailey's), and stick a straw in it. Bunny Fou-Fou for adults!
Sounds perfectly acceptable to me! One must do whatever it takes to retain sanity in the face of antibiotic-fueled diarrhea. Good luck and feel better!
That sounds just about right to me! I completely agree with your logic.
With a glass of sweet red wine, right?
De-eared bunnies = Happy Noah. Pictures don't lie. Feel better!
I had coconut cream pie for breakfast, but no one was sick. It just was a good breakfasty food. Of course, I can turn many a dessert into a breakfasty food -- does it have milk? eggs? flour in the form of crust or cake? That equals eggs, toast and milk in my book!
I also wanted to share something I have posted on my refrigerator with you. I don't know why, but all the talk of booze made me think of it, so here goes:
"The way to achieve inner peace is to finish all the things you've started." So I looked around the house to see all the things I started and hadn't finished... and before leaving the house this morning I finished off a bottle of red wine, a bottle of white wine, the Bailey's, Kahlua and Wild Turkey, the Prozac, some valium, some cheesecake and a box of chocolates. You have no idea how freakin' good I feel...
Now that would be an awesome crossstitch!!
I totally agree! But I also think you don't even need an excuse that good.
Here's hoping for better days to come!
I completely agree. My version of this is that if your husband decides that he doesn't need to buy Easter candy (which was his job) then you deserve the full fat version of shrimp scampi for dinner along with a nice fat slice of cheesecake for dessert to make up for all the candy calories you have missed out on.
Hope both you and Noah feel better very, very soon.
i believe it is perfectly acceptable for you to IM me all afternoon so we can SQUEE about SQUEEEEEE!
if i had a chocolate bunny, he'd be living in my belly by now.
OMG, absolutely eat that damn bunny! I will eat half a bag of Cadburry Mini-Eggs, just to show my support.
Not just required, but admirable. Hang in there.
But don't eat too many sugar free chocolate bunnies and eggs. Trust me. They mean what they say about "high consumption of sugar replacement products can create a laxative effect..."
not a Relaxing effect. A laxative effect.
Or maybe that's how you got poop on your jeans. Hmmm.
Yes! And pretend that it's "chocolate" on your pants, too, if anyone dares to point it out!
If that's the chocolate bunny I gave you, would now be a good time to tell you that I laced it with a flu virus?
HA!
I hope everyone feels better soon....
I had the same Lindt bunny and ate so much of it last night, that I threw the rest out.
Think happy thoughts...
LOL. I was just eating that SAME bunny a few minutes ago!!
I had cadbury mini eggs and a coke for breakfast and I don't have any excuse other than it looked good and the mini eggs were on sale at the drugstore for like 20 cents a pkg so now I have plenty and I am not sharing with my hubby or kids but would send some to you if would make you or sweet little Noah feel better.
That was a dang long sentence. LOL! Chocolate makes a perfect breakfast item and I hope everyone is feeling much better VERY soon. Because poop on the jeans is just WRONG.
I firmly believe that there is little in life that cannot be solved by chocolate. Preferably high quality dark chocolate.
Hope everyone feels better, soon!
Did they give him Zithromax? Please tell me they didn't give him Zithromax.
I ate two humongous peanut butter filled eggs last night (after an entire bag of steamed broccoli and cauliflower, so not so bad, right?) and neither of my kids are sick. I think there's a few more chocolate bunnies lined up for your lunch enjoyment.
I think that taking care of a sick child while also being ill is one of the hardest jobs out there.
You deserve some chocolate for breakfast.
Why do I suddenly have a craving for Cream of Wheat? I make no sense, what so ever.
I sure hope y'all get better soon.
Perfectly acceptable, so long as you honor the sacred protocol of starting with the ears, which I see you have. Carry on.
Girl, you need you some Godiva. And you need to have it for lunch and dinner, too.
Seriously, Dave gave me a book of home hints and cures a while back, and chocolate syrup is listed as a cure for a sore throat. So just melt the chocolate in your mouth for awhile before swallowing it =)
Does Noah like bananas? (Does any baby NOT like them?) Try some Yo-Baby organic banana yogurt (it's whole milk) mixed with some mashed up banana and baby oatmeal all together with a little cinnamon. Yogurt to give him some new flora for what the antibiotics took, banana and oatmeal to bind him up a bit, and cinnamon is not only delicious but a proven anti-viral and anti-bacterial agent. (Like garlic, but it tastes better with bananas).
Feel better soon =)
Absolutely!!.. and just to make it entirely fair, I think I should send you some of those liquer filled chocolates. You know, just to take the edge off. :o)
Dawn
I had chocolate crinkle cookies with my coffee this a.m. and they started the day off just right. Get well soon, Noah and his ma!
Wait. Wha?
I think the funniest thing about that post is just how happy Noah looks in the background. Like he knows he's tormenting you. Like a two-year-old already. He's gifted.
Oh, how I hate antibiotic fueled poop! There is nothing worse. Is it augmenten? I'd be willing to bet. It's so fun getting babies to get meds too, isn't it? I FORTUNATELY have not had to deal with it yet for my little one but I've been there done that with my eldest multiple times.
If you ask me, chocolate bunnies are appropriate for all meals of the day when dealing with a sick child. Hope he feels better soon!
The poop on your jeans? It's Noah's...right?
Amen to that!
I ate a non-Easter related Cadbury Roasted Almond chocolate bar this morning, so yes, YES, it is perfectly acceptable to eat chocolate for breakfast.
You poor thing. Isn't it crazy how easily they get bored ALREADY? They're just BABIES. What happens when they become toddlers?
Hang in there!
Um, wanna watch starting over together?
I'm for the alcohol filled bunny & lots of them!
Starbuck, I think you made me pee myself a little.
Um, I actually think the Required Chocolate Bunny Count in such situations is THREE. Which means you have yet to fill your quota. Get to it, woman.
But when you look down at your jeans a few hours from now and think "oh, I must have dropped some chocolate from those three chocolate bunnies! I'll scrape that off and eat it," REMEMBER BACK TO THE POOP, I BEG YOU, THE POOP.
Definitely a requirement. Hope things improve soon!
It's not just a requirement, it qualifies as a prescription!!! Every four hours, girl, or it's gonna get ugly around there!
Damn you! Now I want a chocolate easter bunny! I ate my own weight in pie/cupcakes/chocolate at my grandparents' house this weekend. Now I will have to eat nothing but salad for the rest of my natural life... or until our next trip to see my grandmother...
I'm with the chef -- must have peanut butter with that bunny!
Hope you both are feeling better soon =)
I do not even want to talk about how many of those bunnies I have eaten this Easter. I am ashamed. Shamed!