Despite several of us feeling hinky (extreme fatigue, nausea and even a small fever or two), the puke plague seems to have only struck Mira. She has missed the last 2 days of school from a residual fever but the vomiting only lasted 24 hours. Here’s where I’d like to thank Jesus and bleach.

I’m not typically a bleach person. The smell is overwhelming, burns my nose, and makes me ill. When I first met my husband he was a bonified bleach addict. He still has this small HUGE problem of putting bleach in unmarked spray bottles after which mass clothing carnage typically ensues. His last big bleach oops killed our brand new king sheets, half MY wardrobe and several of his things. For many moons after this incident, bleach was entirely banned from our home. I refused to buy it and the few times he bought it - I hid it. Recently I have allowed it back into my home and his overzealous love has shown it’s self on my white towels. They are all suddenly threadbare. Last week I could dry myself with no problem, today I stepped out of the tub and put a huge hole in my towel just trying to grab it off of the rack.

Bleach does have it uses- like disinfecting after a rousing round of Tilt-a-Hurl leaves every surface in sight spatter painted with germs. Heck as soon as I could I ran out and bought Lysol All Purpose cleaner with bleach. If a reviewer thinks “Using this product is like killing a gnat with an Uzi” then I knew it would surely obliterate stomach virus germs.

Is it sad that I actually had to research what cleaning product I wanted to buy? It’s been so many years since I used anything harsh that all the flashy germ killing claims made my head spin. My typical cleaning products include Method Lavender multi purpose spray, Bon Ami, E-cover, vinegar, baking soda and occasionally some Mister Clean (The electric yellow scent, it’s my one environmentally unfriendly cleaning product obsession. Of course, I can’t use it straight up and water it down in a spray bottle). Am I the only one?