Officially a Dot Mom

My first ever Dot Moms post is up! Go leave a comment if you like (so I don’t feel poor and pitiful).

My darling baby daughter woke up this morning and as soon as I touched her, I thought, “Uh oh.” My maternal radar screamed–”Alert! Alert! This is not a drill! Sick baby! Get her Motrin, stat!” :starwars:

After digging through the medicine drawer and finding the thermometer, I could NOT find the Vaseline anywhere. This is bad. I eyed the Johnson’s baby lotion thinking…hmm…would that work? I had images of giving my child unheard of infections and problems by using lotion. Nope, not gonna go there.

I tried the ear thermometer, but they really don’t work on kids younger than two because their Eustachian tubes haven’t fully developed in the right direction. It kept giving me bad readings.

Somehow I managed to get everyone their breakfast cereal while still searching for the Holy Grail…the Vaseline. At last, I found it beneath the bathroom cupboard, stuffed way in the back. Now I know I did not put it there. It must have been part of the Toddler Relocation Program.

At last, I had an accurate reading of 102.4. Yikes. So I’m staying home today and missing out on our school district’s convocation. I shall truly miss sitting on a bleacher in an auditorium for two and a half hours, listening to the superintendant praise our school for its high test scores. I shall miss the stale sandwiches and juice boxes they serve us for lunch. And most of all, I shall miss the thrill of being forced to ride a school bus to the event because there isn’t enough parking.

Enough of that. So, are you among the mystics of parenthood? Can you tell just by touching your child that he/she has a fever?