Mold Spores

Ok, so I have allergies.  Bad allergies.  I am allergic to everything.  This isn’t usually a problem this late in the summer, because everything is done putting out pollen, and nothing is dying yet.  Unfortunatly, Maine is having the worst summer ever, and the sun no longer shines.  in fact, all that the weather seems capable of is rain, and humidity.  This is bad because the mold spore count really high, and its making me miserable.  My kids are suffering too.  Will has a blankie to which he has become very attached.  We gave it to him, hoping that he would love it, and we would be able to take away his binky.  Fail.  Now he has to have both the blankie and the binky.  I digress, he has been carrying the blankie around and using it to scratch his face with.  I feel so bad for him.  The sad part is, since he is under two, there is nothing I can give him for his allergies.

I need to talk about the FDA for a minute here.  Last year, they pulled all the cold and allergy meds for kids under two, because some stupider than average parents were OD’ing their kids in an attempt to make them sleep, or possibly because they couldn’t do math.  The reason they gave (the FDA) is that the medicines don’t work.  That’s a load.  They did work.  Ask any parent who has been up all night with a baby that has a cold, and has slipped them the last of the contraband decongestant (which we all have stashed away for times like this) who has then seen the baby start to clear out and go to sleep.  The meds did work, its just they were seeing too many stupid people administer them incorrectly.  Thank you, morons, for ruining it for the rest of us. 

Ok, so Will is itchy, and I can’t do anything for him.  Ella, thankfully, is old enough for Zyrtec.  Even though she feels better, there is still a problem.  Its been raining forever.  The kids can’t go outside and burn off any energy.  The other part of the problem is, when the sun shines the grass never dries, because its now as long as your average hay field.  No one can mow, because we are getting 5 minutes of sun per week.  Add to this the humidity, and now my lawn looks like a scene from Alice in Wonderland.  There are toadstools that are bigger than my kids.  This makes me nervous about letting them play outside, because, you guessed it, Will would try and eat the mushrooms.  I am pretty sure that they are poisonous, and i don’t want Will testing the thoery.

This leads me to yesterday.  I went to the basement, which smells like your average cave, to do some laundry, and i hear my kids upstairs laughing with glee.  This is not a good sign.  When I get upstairs, you can no longer see my floor.  Its covered with the contents of a case of daipers from Sams Club.  200 daipers, on the floor.  Ok, so, 199 on the floor, and one on Wills head, like a hat.  Ella is charging back and forth across the livingroom, throwing daipers like confetti, and Will, is wearing one on his head, and climbing into the now empty case and using it as a fort.  It was almost a shame to clean it up, but the anal retentive in me must be satisfied.  I loaded the diapers into the drawer where they were going to begin with, and went back downstairs.  Again, i hear happy voices, and go up to check it out.  Ella has unloaded the drawer, and put the diapers back into the box.  Will, then took them out, so he could get back into the box, (hat in place) and covered the floor.  Again.  So I put the box outside in the trash, and loaded up the drawer, again, and explained to the kids, again, that diapers aren’t toys. So this gets me to my point.  Maybe we could all pray for a little sun?

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