Well that was fun!
The busiest week of the year at work (I do Tax Returns) and the 2 year old started being sick on Wednesday morning. He was only sick a few times but of course that meant no nursery for the rest of the week. I took Wednesday off, worked when I could and called stbxh to see if he could possibly change shifts to take him on Thursday (31 Jan so the deadline for all my work for the year). He refused, saying I should see this as a "reality check".
So, I got on with it myself, managed to still get all my work done, and felt pretty good about how ace I am.
Then last night my 4 year old was sick just after she'd gone to bed. We were up until after 1am with her being sick every 30 mins, the 2 year old up and bouncing on her bed, and me feeling increasingly nauseous myself. Finally got some sleep after that, and I haven't started being sick yet but am dreading that I will. This is definitely not a good part of single-parenthood.
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Just did my first round of norovirus as a LP
marryinhaste · 01/02/2013 08:24
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You nailed it - bloody well done. 
Hope you manage to avoid the lurgy yourself.
"Reality check"? What a nob!
Aww poor you. It is pants but you do feel like wonder woman once you come out of the other end :P I remember looking after DS on literally no energy at all (when it was at the point where eating was a waste of food...scuse the tmi) and having to make sure he was safe etc before I could be sick :P You don't know what multi-tasking is until you've been ill on your own with kids! And surely if they're HIS kids too and works full time he isn't entitled to say you should've surrendered your career to motherhood! Cheeky git. It's not the 1950s
Targaryen24 I have stopped trying to apply logic when it comes to him - it's just a waste of time But yes, his whole high and mighty thing about not having kids unless you are prepared to be with them 24/7 rather crumbles now he rarely sees them. But I'm sure in his mind it only ever applied to women, anyway.
Blavkeyedsusan don't tempt me - I have enough tales to keep going all night! My personal favourite, though, was leaving me to get a cab home the day after a horrendous breech delivery (yes, no c section) because I had dared to mention a few weeks earlier than we would need to watch our money as I would not be getting much while on ml (I was the main earner, and he had no idea about our finances). No matter how much I begged him to take the day off, he wouldn't.
Synchronised vomiting sounds awful. I was pretty close laser night, but think it was just the smell of it that was making me feel queasu, thankfully!
even the word breech makes me shudder ..What an ass.
I always end up laughing at the situation once we're over the worst of it when it comes to colds/bugs. That and 
Well done!!!
I survived noro with my 15 month dd at the start of dec, she was sick for a week!! It was dreadful 
Her dad isn't around at all so it was all single handed 
You are ace
We all had a horrific sick bug last year - first my little boy, then my DD was sent home from school. I took time off work while they got over it - then got it myself. My worst memory is of my 2 year old son watching me being sick down the loo saying "what a lot of dirt"!!!!!! I didn't have the energy to move him away 
Later I lay in the hallway while they were bouncing around on their beds, slightly hysterical (in a gleeful but nervous way!) that mummy was completely incapacitated!
However we got over it and lived to tell the tale! But surviving sickness as an LP is interesting to say the least!
Marryinhaste - oh yes - mn is full of man haters naturally but now I see him hanging around on the dad threads and giving advice all over the place on a site he allegedly despises. He also alleges he needs to stalk me on here........(insert v ropey reason). I assume its a weird kind of jealously 
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