clean up on aisle 1

well, it seems that lately my blog entries are about poop and puke. i guess just part of the reality that my job is being a mom!

helen has been fighting a tummy bug for about 4 days now. yesterday i thought she was turning the corner - she was able to keep crackers, popsicles, and water down and slept great last night. this morning she had a little bit of oatmeal, a popsicle, and some water. so after dropping off the boys at school - i decided to run to the grocery store to stock up for the weekend. i took the stroller and helen rode on the board that i have attached to the stroller while i put groceries in the bag of the stroller. i had about 3 things in the stroller bag when all of a sudden helen had this funny look on her face..... i said "do you have to get sick?" while i'm asking this question, i'm fumbling at the back of the stroller to try and grab a bag just in case she was going to get sick. TOO LATE!! out it came! i thought to myself - now what am i going to do? i don't know how to ask for help in dutch....thankfully a nice lady came up to me and offered to get some help from a store clerk. helen, jillian, and i waited for what seemed like forever for someone to come over to help us.... of course we were right in the middle of the aisle.... in everyone's way....i didn' want to move out of the way.... at least the stroller was covering up the "mess". i had several people begin to speak to me in dutch... thankfully i have figured out the phrase for "do you speak english?" i met a gentleman who knew some people from wisconsin that had lived here 10 years ago..... and a lady who tried to entertain helen with a picture of 2 dogs on her shopping bag.

so this young man came over with one of those industrial size floor cleaners and as he assessed the situation he said "one moment" and walks away. he comes back in a few minutes with a pair of rubber gloves, bucket of cleaning solution, and LOTS of towels! i felt so sorry for him.

now i have a dilemma - i needed so many things from the store.... but i didn't want her to get sick again.... so i kept the fruit that didn't get "soiled" and ran by the bread section to get some bread for my lunch..... oh and some laundry soap because i've been doing helen's laundry for the last 4 days and i was out of laundry soap!

now we're off to the doctor this afternoon! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!