September is supposed to be the ‘happy month”, large in part due to everything I think St. Louis really had to offer culminates during this month. Every weekend is jam packed with festivals, hot air balloon glows & launches, carnivals, art fairs and apple picking adventures. This is the month I look at my calendar and feel like “gee, I look like I have a life- who knew!”. It is only natural that I get sick right off the bat at the beginning of the month and land in the hospital for a week. Closely followed by Connor getting sick his third day into preschool- then in turn getting the rest of us sick taking us out of the social scene for yet another week. Fast forward to this week, finding a nail in my tire, Connor breaking out in hives & swelling up to the size of Violet Beauregarde, Robby yelling in German, laptops crashing, car warning lights coming on- we’re ready for October.
I naturally blame all of this on Michael and him switching all of us to an organic diet a few weeks ago. I take the man one weekend to a farmers market in the city and he finds organic smoked meat sticks and it’s all over. He immediately made plans for how we will raise chickens, make dinners from scratch like the Amish every night and forgo normal child-fare related treats. We’ve made all of our meals and snacks from fresh stuff from there since, (which is a total time raper and moot maneuver), and nature has bitten us back rather hard. In theory, this should make a family healthier and more energetic. Quite the opposite for us, it has been a beacon of bad juju. Viva la pesticides and preservatives!
The plan now is to survive till it’s pumpkin time and get this damned month over without having to commit one of our troop to the nut house. So, dear universe, I would like for one week to be emergency room and automobile drama free, where Connor goes to school a full week, Robby doesn’t act like a Kraut in heat and Michael welcome’s frozen waffles & Chinese take-out back into our lives.
It’s not a lot to ask for. It’s not like I’m asking for world peace or a pony. Although, the later would be quite fun to ride around the block.
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