MOTHER'S INSTINCTS

Since I have become a mother, I have realized the power of instincts- a mother's instincts- it is all sometimes painfully true- all those things I heard about it all the years of my life. Case and point- on a good day I can only hear out of one of my ears- the other is usually "cloudy" as I like to call it , rarely are both my ears "working" at the same time- yet somehow, some way I can be in a dead sleep with both of my ears "not working" and still hear the muffled noises from the next room of one of my babies- or is it that I just know? Curly came down with the stomach flew (yes again) a couple of days ago- the first time he puked he screamed and I went running of course - CC ended up taking Little Man into our room and I slept in Little Man's bed the rest of the night to be close to Curly- mainly because I was afraid because I couldn't hear, that he would be crying or choking and I wouldn't hear him- but each and everytime (and this went on all night- almost every hour on the hour) he would make that little noise before he puked, I was up sliding across the bed and had that bowl (you know the family puke bowl- the one every family owns) under his mouth the catch the vomit as it came out- it was like Duke's of Hazzard the way I slid across that bed- anyway just today Curly started feeling better and just when I thought the other 2 had escaped it miraculously this time, Little Man has been puking non-stop for the last few hours- the problem is- CC has to be up at 5 to go to work- I cannot and will not ask him to be a part of all of this- and number 2 Little Man is not very into the bowl thing- he cannot bring himself to vomit in a bowl- so he does it whenever and wherever he can. Now, I had 2 sets of sheets and 1 comforter for each of them- Little Man went through all of them in about a half hour- so here it is, 2:30 a.m. and I am on my 5th load of laundry because don't ya know he hit every pillow sheet and blanket on his bed every time and literally no sooner do I get one washed that I am up there getting another to bring down to wash and my dryer sucks so it takes like 2 hours to dry a load.. anyway my point is, even being down here in the basement and him being 2 floors up, the tv on and the washer and dryer going, I can hear the slightest noise, or not even, just get a feeling like I should go and check on him and every single time, even without a whimper from him, he has puked and is in need of mama.. it just amazes me.. anyway got to put another load in.. sigh... it's going to be a late night.. BTW, I am having trouble posting pics, I wanted to put some up of the wedding from the other night.. stay tuned, I'll try again tomorrow...