The Puke of Earl

Life is full of so many wonderful things: chocolate, flowers, video games, old people NOT driving, chocolate....and then there are those experiences you just don't want to have but inevitably(especially if you have kids) you will get. Oh yes, a bug has come home to my house. It's a 24 hour thing thankfully but not the nice you just feel icky and then your find variety but the you know your sick because LOOK! It's your dinner! Round 2 is never, ever, EVER as pleasant as Round 1. So it started with one of my twins, Lance. He spent Saturday night puking his guts out...seriously, his apendix and everything. Then my wife got sick on Sunday night/Monday morning, Cameron(the other twin) started on Monday night and last night...well let me start a little story.
My wife has been invited to play Bunco with a bunch of women in the neighborhood. Apparently it's a fun dice game and they have prizes and socialize and eat dinner. Last night was that night. I had made BBQ Beef ribs in the crockpot so my wife ate with us because, HELLO it's ribs. Then she left and everyone was fine. Crickett actually finished her dinner first which almost never happens. That was the first sign. The older kids went out to play and I stayed inside trying to appease the twins until bedtime. Long story short, I got all of the kids in bed and finished watching "Spies like us" and decided I hadn't played football in a long time. I have been playing Madden 2003 for the Xbox for a long time now. I'm in my 10th or 11th season on franchise mode. It's the one game that I play by myself. So I went downstairs and turned it on not expecting my wife until 10 or 11. She got home halfway through the first quarter which is only 6 minutes long. *sigh* Still she is my wife and I do love her so I paused it and went to talk to her and welcome her home. Then she reminded me in that gentle wifely way that I still had not finished putting away the Christmas town. Yeah the one I put in November...hehehe. I was almost done so I did that and went back to playing my game. Then as I'm working through the 3rd quarter my wife calls me into her craft room to say she can hear Crickett crying. Really? My game room is right below her room and I didn't hear anything. Must have the volume up too much. So I went upstairs to check thinking that she probably wet her bed again. But to my joyous(sarcasm implied) surprise, she too had gotten the bug. It was all over her shirt, sheets, blankets and in her hair. *sigh*
I cleaned her up, put her in the bath stripped her bedding and washed her up, got her out of the bath and situated in the living room with a towel. I went back downstairs at a little after 11. It had now been 2 hours since I started my game that usually only takes an hour at most with a few interuptions. I went to bed at midnight. So now four members of my family have been bitten and there are only 3 left. I'm hoping it stops here because it is a very smelly messy bug. And I'm tired of cleaning up after it.