ACK! I am home with AD, who has a respiratory infection. Kind of reminds me of this time LAST YEAR, when she ALSO had a respiratory infection. Good times. Also, note to self: improve functional fitness for wrestling toddlers. Am sore from head to toe today from trying to give her a breathing treatment at the doctor's office yesterday while large, muscular nurses looked on from the hallway. Additionally: look into Olympic Wrestling feeder preschools.
Anyway, there's obviously nothing to see here, but I WILL leave you with this awesome ad from the weekly newspaper in my small Minnesota hometown:
In case you can't read the print, it says, "The First Baby of 2008 [ed: last year the first baby of 2007 was born in MARCH] will receive 1 Rotisserie Chicken with side salad". HAHA! You know how those newborns love their Rotisserie Chicken! With side salad!
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I hate those stupid breathing treatments. We went through that when my son had RSV in November and now we are doing them again this week because he has another respiratory thing. Although wrestling an 11 month old isn't too bad I can imagine the years to come.
That Economart is certainly generous. What newborn wouln't want a tasty chicken drumstick!
Hope AD is feeling better. Those respiratory things are scary, so I don't imagine you're getting much sleep these days either.
eek, i don't know what this respiratory contraption is, but it sounds awful.
are there ever, like, fights for this chicken? new mothers waving birth certificates around and screaming the times their babies were born?
Alice-Not really, although that would be AWESOME. There are only about 10 babies a year born in my hometown hospital. It usually takes at least a few weeks for the first one of the year.
Hey Economart - we had one of those in Marquette MI... Ah good old Econo - biggest frozen food section I have ever seen in any grocery store ever!
My favorite part of the ad is that the text is written inside of the world's largest safety pin. Because who doesn't think of babies when they see a HUGE safety pin?
The first baby of last year was born in March? Really? That is an amazing tidbit. It sounds like "small" is an understatement for that town.
I personally can't think of a better gift for a new baby. I really hope that someone gives my next child a rotisserie chicken . . .
Breathing treatments are truly awful - we usually have O on them twice a day during cold season so I very nearly made out with our pediatrician when he said we could stop them and see how he does last week. BEST DOCTOR EVER
Poor you guys. I hope you feel better soon.
Once, when I was pregnant, someone offered me a rotisserie chicken after I gave birth, but they did NOT offer side-salad, so I told them to get stuffed.
Oh, I hope AD feels better soon!
Also, I have been to one Economart in Hudson, Wisconsin, and their rotisserie chickens looked mighty delicious
After I had T (which was January 7th, 2001, so I could have won your hometown's chicken that year), my sister-in-law brought me a rotisserie chicken. No side salad, though. Corn and mashed potatoes instead.
Hope AD feels better soon!
I hope the breathing treatments are at least helping.
Also, I would have expected a hotdish for the first baby of the year.
You think the salad has baby greens? HA!
Maybe I'll move there and try to win the rotisserie chicken! HA!
We actually own one of those breathing machines after trying to deal with ED at the dr.'s office several times. It was such a pain in the ass when he was young, but he knows now that if I get it out, it will help him feel better.
OMG- you must reveal to me your hometown. I live in a small MN town, but we don't have an Economart, so I know it's not us. But I dying to know!
That's the funniest 1st baby of the year prize EVER. Also, first baby born in MARCH. I'm dead.
Only the most uncouth babies would accept a rotisserie chicken WITHOUT side salad. I'm glad to see that Economart recognizes that and is bringing the fine art of Side Salad to the masses.
Also: I hope AD feels better soon! It just sounds miserable for all involved. Ugh.
LOL! That is priceless. Please update us when the first baby of the year is born and the rotisserie chicken and side salad is claimed.
And get well wishes to AD! Breathing treatments sound awful! Poor little mite.
But will they puree it for him/her?
I hope AD's feeling better. Respiratory problems in little ones always sound so horrible.
You must tell me your hometown (email me!). (Or at least tell me if you're from central MN.) My hometown has an Economart as well.
Yucko. My son was prescribed a vaporizer to clear up some lung issues when he was a little over a year old. He was like, you want me to sit still and breath in that crap? Riiiiiiight. I ended up chasing him around the room a few times a day with this machine vaporizing medicine. I probably inhaled more of it than he did.
Get well soon, AD!
Haha! That ad is FUNNY!
Being at home with a sick kid seriously sucks. My sympathies. Hope you can avoid the germ. Because being home sick with a healthy kid is worse.
AMEN a thousand times over to what erin said. Took the words right our of my mouth!
Even at his advanced age, James still fights and wrestles, and cries and sighs when having his breathing treatments. He usually hits one or two 2 week long patches where he must take them. And then the wound up behavior afterward. Oy. Hope she feels better soon.
Not much of an incentive during delivery, is it?
Swistle: You gave me a vision of two pregnant women laboring in the small town hospital, with both husbands coaching, "Come one honey! Push a little harder, or they're going to steal that chicken right out from under us!"
Gee, all the first baby in our town gets is his/her picture in the paper. Boooring. And why isn't it, like, a pack of diapers instead?
My college roommate had to do breathing treatments for her CF. We referred to her machine as "the peace pipe."
Desperate Housewife, you just totally made me spench.
That was AWESOME and must be scripted into a television show or something.
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