I hope you all had a better Valentine's Day than we had!
1. Rose had to get eye drops every 4 hours, which she hates.
2. She got sent home early from school due to fever.
3. Usually Mike is on "sick duty" for Rose right now (because he has a far more flexible schedule for the time being), but yesterday I had the car and Mike was almost an hour away by bus, so I had to leave early to pick her up.
4. Mike is leaving for a weekend of ice fishing this morning, so I also had to frantically find coverage for today. (I cancelled my morning clients, and I am SOOOOO appreciative of Marsha and my parents for covering the late morning and afternoon!!!)
5. Rose was so tired that she slipped in the bath which scared her (and me!) and I had to cut her bath short to comfort her (and me!).
6. Then I had to give her eye drops and medicine again, which promptly riled her up once more.
7. As she was drinking her evening milk and finally starting to calm down, she started coughing and there was a toot sound. So I had to wake her up in order to change her diaper, but it turned out there wasn't a toot after all so it was all for nothing.
8. Then she went back to drinking milk. She finished one side, and just as we were switching to the other side she started coughing again. She coughed so much that she vomited all over! (And I do mean all over!)
9. In order to finish feeding her I had to make the difficult choice between stewing in her vomit vs. shivering in the nude. Not an an easy call to make.
10. After she finally got to sleep, I had a million work-related things to catch up on, so I was up until at least 10pm working. This may not seem late to you, but I am usually in bed reading by 8:30 and asleep at 9 (my alarm goes off at 5:15 on work days), so this was definitely late for me!
11. I've been so used to Rose waking up between 1 and 4 every night for the past month or so that I've now been wide awake since 4:30. (Yes, on the one work day that I actually didn't have to set my alarm, I still woke up well before it would have gone off!) I stayed in bed until 6 hoping that I would fall back asleep, but I had no such luck. (Yes, that means I'm running on 6.5 hours of sleep, which is WAY less than the 8-8.5 hours that I need to function optimally.)
But the good news from #11 is that Rose actually slept through the night!!!! So maybe the "Ides of February" will be the turning point for health in our household. Fingers crossed!
Oh man, poor Rose needs a good long break from any kind of illness or infection. And hopefully, you and Mike will stay healthy too. Hugs and Kisses!!
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