Singing the Preschool Sick Kid Blues

[dropcap2 variation=”teal”]I[/dropcap2]t started the first week of September. My kid went to preschool for the first time and came back with a cold, then another one, then a virus, then a flu-like thing, then…. With the exception of a few weeks here and there, it’s been an almost non-stop avalanche of illness in this household. Add our travel schedule to the preschool days and you have the perfect tsunami of germy sickness. There’s a reason I’m comparing this to natural disasters.

This week, it’s another cold, complete with snotty mucus and my child saying “Mommy, my nose,” over and over. The girl is sick, the husband is sick, I’m sick. Again.

A month or so ago, I was at the park and saw a friend. She said “Gosh, it seems like you guys have been sick a lot!”

“Zoe started preschool in September.”

She thought for a moment, then said, “Oh, yeah, I forgot about that. The first 18 months my kid was in preschool, my husband and I looked at each other and said ‘what’s wrong with us!’ We were sick all the time.”

“Us too.”

“It gets better,” she said. “Now he’s in kindergarten and he’s never sick.”

Oh, how I long for those days to get here. Meanwhile, we’re singing the preschool sick kid blues:

Da dum dum dum dum, My kid’s got a cold
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Da dum dum dum dum, She’s home from school
Da dum dum dum dum, It’s so not cool
We’ve got the preschool, the preschool sick kid blues
I’m told it ends someday, boy I’d like to get that news.

Da dum dum dum dum, This streak’s got to end
Da dum dum dum dum, Germs are not our friend
Da dum dum dum dum, Well, I beg your pardon
Da dum dum dum dum, what do you mean it’s better now than in kindergarten!
We’ve got the preschool, the preschool sick kid blues
I’m told it ends someday, boy I’d like to get that news.

Sigh.

P.S. If you’re wondering about the photo of Venice — It’s the bluest photo I could find. And it seems like we keep seeing the shore during this wave of illness, but we never quite get there.