Day: February 28, 2008

i am very very very somewhat interested in hearing your opinion on this matter.

i belong to a triplet parents discussion group.

a relatively new mum of triplets recently posted to the group asking for assistance on obtaining a handicapped parking tag for her vehicle. although she and her children have no health issues, she feels that her children’s safety is at issue when she is unloading her kids from the vehicle to the stroller, and she is therefore entitled to a parking space.

some fellow mums wrote back and gave her tips on getting the handicapped parking location.

however the majority wrote back in disfavour of this action.

i admit i fall into the second category.

i do not consider my kids handicaps. even if i could drive, why would i take a handicapped parking spot that should be used by someone who legitimately needs it? i don’t argue that getting kids out of a vehicle can be tough and fast moving cars can be a danger, but mums of multiples have the option of parking in far off locations, which also burns calories (YAY!). (obviously the parking lots in hong kong need to be a little bigger to give me a little longer to work off my jlo.)

what do other people think when they see parents of multiples demanding special privileges? someone sent me an email on the topic asking, "what about jon and kate plus eight? they have their own their own designated parking spot." that is their business! between them and the company! they didn’t ask for it, it was given to them. i do see a difference.

besides the fact that my children aren’t handicaps, i do know that handicapped parking spaces are needed by the majority of the people who do have the parking tags. yes, some people do abuse handicapped tags, but that is their choice, their conscience.

so there we go. this will never affect my life because chances are very good i will never drive. but even if i could, i wouldn’t classify my kids as handicaps. and i wouldn’t single them out by describing them as handicapped. as a handicapped person who’s handicap shows itself in very obvious ways occasionally, i want to spare them that "handicapped" label.

gravity

gravity is a funny thing. or not so funny if your name is jasper.

monday night sebastian reported that he wasn’t feeling well. i would have figured that out myself…the old half mast eyes were glassy and the forehead was getting hot. and his gorgeous little back, covered in the occasional freckle.

poor little fellow. i have him some motrin and he settled down. his father wasn’t in town, which upset sebastian more than it usually would have done. he wrestled in his sleep with special blanket and moved around a lot during the night.

especially at one point during the night, when sebastian woke up and decided that he felt like he was going to vomit. he was very very tired, but he managed to lift his torso and turn his head over the side of his bed and vomit.

the problem is, of course, that sebastian sleeps on a bunkbed, and jasper’s bed juts out underneath sebastian’s. and good old gravity demanded that vomit that came out of sebastian’s mouth head downwards straight on to jasper’s bed.

what a dissgossting way to wake up. being vomited on.

can you imagine? poor little jude.