Hypocrisy

To catch you up my kids were sick last week.

Tamarin and Lemur both had eye and ear infections, but Tamarin also had an infection of the tissue around the eye. This was last week. We went to the doctor and my kids have been on their first round of antibiotics ever. Yes, ever. Tamarin is nearly 7 and Lemur is 5 1/2. So the next time you balk at natural healing methods keep that in mind. Most kids I know have had their first round of antibiotics before they ever reach 2. The doc said it was probably a bacterial infection they picked up from other kids. I figure we picked it up at the zoo two weeks ago.

The doc said by Saturday my kids would no longer be contagious. Sure enough by Friday they were both fine and insistent they didn't need to take their meds anymore. Ugh, so frustrating to explain why you can feel fine and still need to finish your medicine twice a day for another week. 

We cancelled all our plans this week with friends just in case they were contagious. Yet I still took my kids to their classes. Last night I mulled it over because I felt guilty. I've gone on a tirade here and elsewhere about people not staying home when ill and yet I took my kids to classes when I wasn't willing to risk contaminating our friends and family. 

Do I think they were contagious? No. So I'm torn between two guilts. I cancelled with friends quite possibly for no good reason and I also took my kids to classes potentially contaminating other kids.

Why drag this out on the blog? Simple, when you have kids you can't keep anything from anyone. The moment your child knows something or has done something it becomes international common knowledge. I don't care how obscure you are in your metaphors. Don't talk about things you don't want kids to share in front of them. If you do something you better believe everyone in your world will know about it.

I think I should apologize to everyone I cancelled on this week. I'm sorry. My schedule has been so packed lately I think I was eager to have an excuse to have less commitments. So when my kids tell you they went to gymnastics and speech this week please don't hate me for cancelling on you. If it makes you feel better do know I feel very bad about it.