My Deep Dark Fear!!!

I have a confession! Some people are afraid of heights, cats, birds (who wouldn't be afraid after watching Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds?), spiders, but after seeing the incredibly stupid movie arachnophobia I wasn't afraid of spiders anymore. I was, however, afraid of eating popcorn without looking in the bowl and taking a shower.

My fear, on the hand, is really stupid. I think I'm the only one who is afraid of this. I am afraid to clean off the top of my fridge. Let me explain.

You see, I'm short. I am 5 foot 4 and 3/4.  So every time one of my kids got sick I'd have to pull a chair over and get medicine from the cupboard above the fridge.  Then instead of putting them back in the cupboard I'd leave them on top of the fridge as long as they are sick.  Then when they'd get better, I'd pull a chair over and put the medicine back in the cupboard above the fridge.  Then, almost immediately after putting the medicine back, they'd get sick. So I'd have to pull a chair over and get medicine from the cupboard above the fridge.  Then, instead of putting them back in the cupboard, I'd leave them on top of the fridge and start the process over again.  After repeating this process several times, I was sick and tired of it. So in frustration I said, "That's it. I'm not putting the medicine back. It's staying on top of my fridge."

Then, this magical thing happened.  They stopped getting sick.  Then months would go by and the top of my fridge would be an embarrassment so I'd clean it off ,and yep, you guessed it, someone would get sick.

You may think its a coincidence or I'm just being lazy, but it really happens.  I am afraid to clean off the top of my fridge, because someone will get sick. I promise!! It is almost like the germs sit and hide from me and then when I try to move anything and put it a way they jump out and get us. It's like an evil game of hide and seek.

My fridge got so bad that almost every time someone opened it they had things falling on them. So I knew I had to do it. I laughed at myself and said I was superstitious.  Then on Sunday one kid got a stuffy gunky nose and another got Rocky Mountain quick step and I thought maybe if I clean it when someone is sick no one else will get sick. This is brilliant.

So yesterday I cleaned out my cupboard and the top of my fridge.  I didn't put all the medicine in the cupboard but in a basket on top of the fridge.  When Princess got home and saw what I was  doing she asked, "So which one of us is going to get sick?"

I told her my brilliant plan and she looked at me with a look that said," it had better not be me."

Lets jump to 1:20 am.  We are all sleeping peacefully when Princess comes to our bedroom door and says, "Doll just threw up."

At 8:18 am as I'm writing this, Ninja starts sniffling and wiping his nose.

       

Now you might say its in my head, but you explain it.  Four kids, three different illnesses two Immediately after I clean off my fridge. 

Before I could post this last week my two littlest boys flooded the bathroom sink and then started to put everything they could find in the now flooding sink.  Including a plugged in curling iron.  I was asked recently if I was pregnant because I hadn't blogged in awhile. I have 7 kids!! SEVEN!!!  Count them 7 kids!!  This is the reason I don't blog that much.

So after a winter of really no one getting sick, in the last week after cleaning off my fridge 7 of the 9 of us have all gotten sick in one way or another.  So now you know why I am and always will be afraid to clean off the top of my fridge.