When they hand you a child, they don't explain that they're giving you the keys to the Kingdom of Worry forevermore. There's no warning that you will spend long nights for the rest of your life wondering if that was a snore or a snort. Is that a life-threatening rash, or a blush? Is this a bullying episode, or a small skirmish among as-yet socially inept?
Tonight, Mr6 is red. Not itchy, but red. Not awake, but not really sleeping well. Hot and bothered. Moist, even. Alert and cheerful when he wakes to drink. What does it all mean? I tried the glass test on his redness, but realised I couldn't remember what was supposed to happen under the glass. He seemed fine. I googled rashes and freaked myself out, sitting here by myself in a silent house.
So I must give up. Give in to the worry. Go and sleep in my little boy's room, so I know that he's okay. The work will have to wait again. Hopefully I'll rediscover my zest for it tomorrow.
Cheer me up. What's your favourite word at the moment - and your least favourite?
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Update: Today is a new day, the rash is gone and all that's left is a runny nose (him) and exhaustion (me). But I'm flogging my blog with Lori at RRSAHM, so pop over and check out the rest of the hop.
My favourite word is "ombudsman"- I just like the way it sounds- it's apparently Swedish.
ReplyDeleteLeast favourite is "moreish"- as in "that ice cream is just so moreish"- any one who uses the word moreish is a greedy cow.
Hope the rash gets better. If the rash goes away when pressed with glass it isn't worst case scenario thing
My favourite word at the moment is dyscalculia which I have self diagnosed in myself.
ReplyDeleteAnd my least favourite word(s) pink frosting. Nuff said.
Hope your sweetheart is ok. Have you phoned Health Direct? xx
Oh the worry and the nights are the worst. Why the nights? We do not know. (Just in case... the rash under the glass is supposed to disappear. If it stays, immediately race out the door with Teresa's emergency sirens blasting loudly into the night all the way to the birthplace of TICH.)
ReplyDeleteFavourite word of the moment: pharyngitis
Least favourite word of the moment: rash*
Both the bothersome red one and the acting hastily and without enough thought... x
I hope your little boy is OK. It is always so worrying isn't it whenever they are sick, but you always have in the back of your mind how quickly young children can go from being fine to anything but.
ReplyDeleteI like solipsistic - one of my favorite words, I had a boss once which this word described perfectly
What words don't I like - scorpion, this summer that has been a word to dislike :-)
I hope he's feeling a little better. So many nights I've sat up with hot sweaty children, worrying and not sure quite what to do.
ReplyDeleteFav word right now is sale !! Thats because I'm finding so many excellent online bargains!
Worst word 'tired' as I wish I wasn't feeling so much of it.
Hope you and your little man find some zest tomorrow.
I know this is almost impossible to comprehend but the more kids you have the less you worry. I estimate that all you have to do is spawn 6 more and you'll sleep easy forever more. Except when they keep you awake... which will be every night.
ReplyDeleteAnyhoo, I've always been partial to "flange" - I dare you to use that appropriately in your next blog post.
Urgh - I hate a rash. The fact that they can be nothing or something (rather like a headache)...infuriating!
ReplyDeleteMy fave word (almost always): serendipitous. Although the captcha word is also attractive (if not an actual word): evesse
Hope you're sufficiently distracted today, and able to kick yourself tomorrow when said rash mysteriously disappears.
How is he this morning? Clammy still? Temp up or down?
ReplyDeleteAl, I'm sorry, but moist is one of my all time fave words - I fear I have used it with you a lot - you've probably been cringing all the while!
I like some made up words. Charlie tells me his bed is all "scrumbled" when his bed sheets get messy & tangled. I love it.
Oh, I hope the redness fades for you.
ReplyDeleteI have to say, I have had a similar night - up at 3am, Little Lion wimpering, bedded down with him on the floor next to me, he tossed and turned until 5.45 when he turned to face me, eyes wide and projectiled all over the both of us. Thnk God for reflexes, otherwise I would have copped a gob full.
Epiphany has to be one of my faves along with every permutation thereof, whether actual words or not - epiphanous, epiphanesque, to epiph, etc...
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So glad to read the update and that it passed. Why does no one warn you about the worry? Well, they do but it falls on deaf ears until it's your turn to be a Mum.
ReplyDeleteI'm afraid one of my least favourite words is Zest - only because an ex started up a catering company called that and I had to see his smiling face on their website for years until I got over him. Before that I loved that word.
Gusset - but that's obvious. And goes with moist.
Secondary is my least favourite at the moment because it's still dominating the conversation re schools.
Hope you get a better night's sleep.
How is our boy today? Rough night? I hope you respond shortly as I am beginning to worry.
ReplyDeleteI've also decided that my all time favourite word is 'parp'.
ohh I love/hate words too!
ReplyDeleteI can't stand that M word - did you know there is a facebook group for lovers of that word?? lol
I did a list this week too and just remembered a favourite that I forgot.
Rambunctious.
Luurve.
I so hear you! At the moment whenever my boy gets a fever or vomits my mind lurches to mild panic, given what recently happened to my friend's little boy. I guess I just have to accept that from now on I'll probably overreact more than usual. Favourite word of the moment? Conundrum.
ReplyDeleteGlad mr6 is okay. And, no, nobody told us about the eternal worry side of motherhood (or maybe they did and we just weren't listening?).
ReplyDeleteMoist is a gross word, but, also, somehow, perfect.
Is it unkind to remind you of the Leigh Hunt poem which always had me howling when a child was ill:
ReplyDelete'Sleep breathes at last from out thee,
My little, patient boy,
and balmy rest about thee
Smoothes off the day's annoy.
I sit me down to think
of all thy winning ways,
And almost wish, with sudden shrink
That I found less to praise'...
My favourite word has to be defenestration. Don't know what it means? It is the act of throwing a person out of a window. Not a nice word, but I have always been endlessly fascinated that someone felt the need to create a word just for this purpose.
ReplyDeleteI also have a love/hate relationship with the word flannel.
I have learnt a new word! thanks WA Editor.
ReplyDeleteI also hate moist. I'm not keen on similarly or particularly or familiarly because I find them hard to say.
I like exponential and nincompoop, ragga-muffin, and scalliwag.
Oh I do hope your little man is feeling a little better today. Everything seems worse in the night - especially at the start when you just don't know what is ahead of you.
ReplyDeleteSo. Words.
I am especially partial to Nantucket. Nantucket. Isn't it lovely? AND one of my bloggy friends recently went there for a visit and so I could say it over and over. "How was Nantucket? What was the weather like in Nantucket?". I also love haberdashery. And the town that our family farm is called Dondingalong. Not bad hey?
I DESPISE napkin. Always have. And the P word (may be used to describe an undergarment) that I cannot even write down as it makes me twitch. And even get a red rash! Moist is up there too.
With you on the moist word. Gag.
ReplyDeleteI hate it when you know something isn't quite right with your kids. It makes my stomach queasy.
Um fave word. Cherry Blossom. Sorry that's two words I cheated. But just love it and how they look.
Hope he improves x
Word Verification: thsingei (NEW FAVOURITE WORD)
Oh, those moments when you pause and tune into every hitch of breath and muffled movement... why isn't there a stress leave entitlement for motherhood? For me, at the moment, it's also the long silent pause in the morning - recent illnesses have begun with my early-riser sleeping later than normal. If I have to get up before him, I'm in a cold sweat myself. So glad to hear your boy sounds so much better today. x
ReplyDeleteAh, words. How I do love them. There's a particularly fine selection above so far (serendipity and epiphany among them), and I'm also partial to discombobulate (probably reflecting my current state of mind) and extraordinary. However, my all-time fave is also a made-up boyo word - like all little boys, he loved talking about his 'texibles'. Oh, I was sad when he learned to say it properly.
Dislikes? No-one is talking about cussing, but I genuinely loathe the 'c' word, so harsh and unlovely, used and abused, especially when coming from a teenagers' mouth in affectionate reference to his mate.
Poor thing! I hope he's feeling better.
ReplyDeleteI'm with you on the moist front. Hate that word! I'm loving whimsy at the moment. Need a bit more of it, don't we?
@TricaRose - am glad I did not see that last night. Today is all good.
ReplyDeleteMy fave and least fave words sound quite similar.
ReplyDeleteFave VODKA
Least Fave VULVA
xo
Glad to hear Mr6 is okay. *Sigh* Being a Mum is such hard work sometimes huh?
ReplyDeleteI am glad you have outed yourself about you issue with 'moist'. I bet you feel much better!
My favourite word (this week) is pre-presbyopia (mainly because it means my lenses are marginally less thick).
I'm never into any words that are onomatopoeic or palindromic (although I am rather partial to both of those descriptors!)
Visiting from the Blog Hops! I love your site. I can't wait to get to know you better. Stop by when you get the chance. I have a Meet Me Monday blog hop and I would love if you could join in.
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Sorry Allison, I should have thought - my timing was bad even a day later. So glad he is better - it is such a lovely poem in the calm light of day.
ReplyDeleteI just adore the word 'succulent' - said in a Yosemite Sam voice.
Glad to hear your little fella is feeling better. I don't like rashes, poor exhausted mumma.
ReplyDeleteWords I hate: Rural, plum, and salubrious.
Words I like: Miscreant, sassy and nebulous
Glad he is on the mend now.
ReplyDeleteFavourite word? Serendipitous.
Least favourite? Panty ick ick ick.
oh a post with the word zest would have been lovely! Don't you hate mothering worry??
ReplyDeleteFav words, imperative, consequence, lovely and incredulous and sarsaparilla (just because its fun to say!) - i also love the stuff the kids say - they call me a bump-bee which i think is their way of saying bumble-bee - too cute
Least liked words; reckon and strewth.
Glad things are on the improve...
ReplyDeletefavourite word? Plethora..... I quite like 'arable' too... as in 'arable land' :)
Never google rashes, especially pictures of them, you'll scare ten years off your life looking at those. Mostly, it's a case of keep them comfortable and wait and see if anything else develops.
ReplyDeleteMiss A got a weird blotchy rash just after getting her chicken pox needle, but the doctor assured me it had nothing to do with it.. hmm. I politely disagreed :)
ReplyDeleteLeast fave word: Vag (shortened form of vagina) UGH
Fave word: Phenylalanine. It just rolls off the tongue in a strange way! Really not good for you though, just as a health warning :)
Hi, came over via the blog hop. I'm glad your boy is better, I always feel so uneasy when my little one is sick (or even just a bit off).
ReplyDeleteGlad your little boy is better!
ReplyDeleteI am loving the word superkalafragalisticespialadocious at the moment - its just in my head !!!
My least favorite word is always panties. And my favorite...inundate. I have been using that word a lot. Must mix up my vocabulary...
ReplyDeleteI am stopping by via Lori's Flogging Friday. You have a lovely blog, looking forward to future posts!
I like bumbershoot; but it's hard to work it into a conversation, unless it's raining of course.
ReplyDeleteAs far as a least favorite- smarmy- of course I don't like it means either.
Glad Mr6 is rash-free and happy, and I hope you get some rest tonight! Why is it that the worry gene becomes so dominant when we have children? Mine almost never rests these days.
ReplyDeleteAnd my favorite word? Downpour/ We had the best, most soothing downpour this afternoon.
Having Mum's cool hand on your cheeks or forehead is one of those flashes of good memories from being a kid and feeling unwell. I hope Mr6 is feeling better today.
ReplyDeleteI love the word 'wonky' and I love how people in Laos say thank you (phonetically) 'kup chai lai lai'.
I hate hate hate 're-gifted'.
Hi,
ReplyDeleteI've just recently discovered your blog and am loving it!
Fave word: purported
Hate: solutions (as in a business calling themselves "network solutions" or similar -- grrrr, almost meaningless)
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Cheers,
Beck
I can't tell you how much I've enjoyed the comments on this post - so many fabulous and (unfabulous0 words. Thanks everyone!
ReplyDeleteI just found your blog (oddly enough from the little paragraph in the free magazine I got from Australia Post!) and I must say I haven't laughed so much in ages - a pure delight, thank you!!
ReplyDeleteBetter late than never: favorite words are: sun, camellia and book, words I dislike: no, can't and 'can you...???'
I'm glad the rash is gone.
ReplyDeleteAnd one of my favorite words is buoy. It just sounds funny. Least favorite? Moist.