Anna's home today

As I was taking Anna down the hall to her classroom today, I overheard one of the Infant teachers saying she was going home because she felt sick. Hmmm, bummer, I thought. Then I heard her co-worker telling her that Ms K (Anna's teacher) and Ms J (sometimes Anna's teacher, in the Toddler room next to Anna's) were home sick today.

Stop right there! Didn't JK text me this weekend that her toddler, BK had a stomach bug, and wanted to know if Anna caught it yet? Could this be going around her classrooms?

I poked my head in, apologized for interrupting, and asked for elaboration on the symptoms. Yep: all stomach illness. I backed up, phoned Paul and asked him if we'd be able to keep Anna home today with him. He agreed that nobody likes toddler vomit, so in an effort to avoid our share, Paul agreed to take Anna with him to the clinic today.

I told the administrator, thanks but no thanks, we'll wait for this to pass, and maybe see you tomorrow or Wed. She agreed that was probably best.

I am out of town this weekend, Fri through Monday. On top of vomiting toddler, we don't want vomiting Spacedaddy, or even putting Spacedaddy in a position of feeling like crap over the weekend such that it's tough to take care of Anna. Last year when I went on this same trip, Paul had an appendicitis attack but held out till I got home before going to the ER for surgery! ;) It was not a fun feeling being far away when Paul was home sick with the baby. This year he'd have a toddler to chase around as well (and potentially vomit to clean).

The risky side of this delay in sending her back to school tomorrow or Wed is that this virus could still very well get her when she goes back, thus pushing the sickness into the weekend when, if she caught it now, she'd be over it by the time the weekend came, leaving then only me and Spacedaddy to take it on, likely over the weekend ourselves.

I am not sure there's a way to win this one, but we will try.
Thanks to TJ for toting Anna around this morning with MM. I hope she didn't give you too much grief. She loves you and we thank you :)