24 Hour Call

24 Hour Call. As the wife of a resident physician I am becoming more familiar with these large chunks of time in which our home is thrown into varying levels of chaos. I don't so much dread the extended absence of my husband, although I admit I do miss him a lot-I enjoy that we will forever be like teenagers because his job ensures that we connect through the day ( and sometimes night) through goofy texts and emails. It keeps the spark alive, what can I say? I do dread the concept itself, because from experience I have learned that bad things happen on these days, and I always seem to feel less than prepared to deal with them. The first time he had his 24 hour+ experience at work, I got so sick that I couldn't even drag myself out of bed, much less take care of a 2 month old and 17 month old. My super amazing mother came to my rescue that night which may or may have not been a ploy to spend more time with her grand babies? I think we all know the truth now, mom. :) Love you! The second time he was on 24 hour call, I lost water at my house. After few hours and a panicked phone call to my father, the water came back on. ( That may not sound like a huge deal to some people, but to a mother of two babies who require baths daily, the laundry slave, and being a human being in general who requires water to survive and had only had about a half a drink of water until the point of it being turned off (thank you, children! :)- this was a big deal. Oh, and it was around 115 degrees at the time. As I said, the water came back on and all is well. Most recently, both boys decided to wake up super early and steal the last minutes of mommy and daddy's sanity for the next couple of days. Yes, it takes a couple of days to recover from "The Chaos." So while my husband is sleepily performing procedures and I am stumbling around my already messy house trying to figure out what smells like # 2, I am wondering what might happen today. In the meantime I a enjoying a morning with my boys and craving some McDonald's French fries.