All the Farts in the World
This post is not about my baby. This post is about a huge truck sitting in my driveway pumping what seems like years of sewage from our septic tank. Our sink clogged up the day I went into labor, and it wasn’t until the next week that we ended up calling the landlord and asking what was up. We tried all the normal stuff, drain-o, plunger…etc. To no avail. The landlord said, “The septic tank is probably full. We’ll get it emptied.” So this afternoon after cleaning the baby’s room up we heard the backing up of a large truck. Within minutes the house was inundated with a disgusting smell- according to my Mom, “All the farts in the world.” We started candles (at our own risk) and my Mom started an “apple pie.” Apple pie in this case is code for water with cinnamon boiling in it on the stove. My Dad promtly took cinnamon paste and smeared it under his nose. He is a large child. He keeps saying, “I still smell cinnamon.” Well yeah, so do we. And, in the words of my Mom, we didn’t have to smear it all over ourselves. Now I’m resting and waiting for Camper to wake up to feed. This afternoon I will probably go through and organise his clothing a bit more, he keeps wearing the same outfits because I’m too lazy to dig through the massive piles of things we have for him. Thanks to Sara and Co. for the amazing clothes again, by the way. He wore your outfits the whole time he was in the NICU.
Update: My Dad just asked, “Does it look like I’ve got sunburn under my nose?” He burned himself with cinnamon. Idiot.
1auntie P
wrote on 30 September 2008 at 14:59
Erin, Thanks for the giggle, I can just see your Dad,and I was laughing so hard I had to stop myself, I got a cramp in my side. Hopefully that smell is all gone now, and you will not have the need, but in case you ever run into that trouble again, use vicks, not cinnamon under your nose. Pass that on to Jim too please,we do no want him running around with a burned upper lip LOL Love ya P