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medicine
so this week finds my body sick. first it was aching body. then terribly sore throat. then painful IUD insertion & cramping. then headache. then sinus infection. EGADS! but have no worries, friends, i am taking antibiotics & have made 'remember to take vitamins!' a priority, not an afterthought while lying in bed. & poor millie had her vaccines & had a very intense reaction for about 24 hours. i was ready to zoom her off to the ER, but infant tylenol finally helped enough to get her to finally sleep & eat again (it was a long 6 hours until then, however). by thursday, she was much better. modern medicine is good, actually, it's GREAT. yet sometimes it hurts. like vaccines that keep babies from getting terrible illnesses, but also make her scream in pain for hours & hours & swell her leg up to the size of a softball. (not to mention the slow nurse who took forever to give the shots! get it over with, already!). & things like IUD's, that may help our family stay at 4 (or 5 if you count the dog, as wes does) & keep me from going insane (which i would if i became pregnant again, there is no doubt about that one) but also make me feel pretty miserable for awhile...(then i read about some really nasty side effects so i am being very vigilant about tracking my reaction to this IUD loveliness). my mom put it pretty good: women will go through hell not to go through hell. ha!
good things
i AM a fan of martha stewart (& oprah) so i know what ' good things' are in her perspective (a nicely iced cake, crisp folded napkins, well organized pantry....), but here are some from my perspective: a husband tall enough to wipe off the cobweb from the ceiling by just reaching his arm. a toddler who will be entertained with just a diaper box. the sighs of a sleeping baby (ahh, you caught me, yes i rocked her to sleep almost the entire week...so much for the baby whisperer's advice!). a hubby who knows his way around the kitchen & is able to make dinner when i am sick. free online tv episodes so i can have my 40 minutes of put-my-feet-up relaxation, a la TV (i've found that reading makes me too tired right now, although i did just finish a book, the first since millie arrived). a hubby who is willing to get up with the kiddos at night so i can sleep. friends who understand how important date nights are by offering to babysit. other mamas going through the same thing offering support. a bible verse that just strikes me as 'this is what i need right now.' a comfortable bed that i love. eating ice cream with a sore throat.
an addy story
she has figured out how to open our freezer (we have a fridge w/ the freezer on the bottom). BIG oh no. & apparently she really likes straws also. so today i hear some rustling while i'm upstairs rocking amelia to sleep. i come down very quietly a few minutes later to spy on her. i see her emptying the freezer of all her favorite things: chicken nuggets, fish sticks, & an ice pack, but she also was holding & sucking on this frozen, half gone milkshake w/ the straw still in it (wes loves to just stick things like that back in the freezer, then NEVER finishes it! eerrr, drives me crazy). i decide to scare her, so i kindly said: "addy!" & she completely jumps in the air, sticks the milkshake back into the freezer, slams the freezer shut & then looks at me w/ her hands in the air. she gave me the most innocent 'where did all these other things come from?' look & said "hhmmmm, huh, hmmm" several times. i just find it hilarious that she thinks i didn't know what she was doing. she just cracks me up.
so this week finds my body sick. first it was aching body. then terribly sore throat. then painful IUD insertion & cramping. then headache. then sinus infection. EGADS! but have no worries, friends, i am taking antibiotics & have made 'remember to take vitamins!' a priority, not an afterthought while lying in bed. & poor millie had her vaccines & had a very intense reaction for about 24 hours. i was ready to zoom her off to the ER, but infant tylenol finally helped enough to get her to finally sleep & eat again (it was a long 6 hours until then, however). by thursday, she was much better. modern medicine is good, actually, it's GREAT. yet sometimes it hurts. like vaccines that keep babies from getting terrible illnesses, but also make her scream in pain for hours & hours & swell her leg up to the size of a softball. (not to mention the slow nurse who took forever to give the shots! get it over with, already!). & things like IUD's, that may help our family stay at 4 (or 5 if you count the dog, as wes does) & keep me from going insane (which i would if i became pregnant again, there is no doubt about that one) but also make me feel pretty miserable for awhile...(then i read about some really nasty side effects so i am being very vigilant about tracking my reaction to this IUD loveliness). my mom put it pretty good: women will go through hell not to go through hell. ha!
good things
i AM a fan of martha stewart (& oprah) so i know what ' good things' are in her perspective (a nicely iced cake, crisp folded napkins, well organized pantry....), but here are some from my perspective: a husband tall enough to wipe off the cobweb from the ceiling by just reaching his arm. a toddler who will be entertained with just a diaper box. the sighs of a sleeping baby (ahh, you caught me, yes i rocked her to sleep almost the entire week...so much for the baby whisperer's advice!). a hubby who knows his way around the kitchen & is able to make dinner when i am sick. free online tv episodes so i can have my 40 minutes of put-my-feet-up relaxation, a la TV (i've found that reading makes me too tired right now, although i did just finish a book, the first since millie arrived). a hubby who is willing to get up with the kiddos at night so i can sleep. friends who understand how important date nights are by offering to babysit. other mamas going through the same thing offering support. a bible verse that just strikes me as 'this is what i need right now.' a comfortable bed that i love. eating ice cream with a sore throat.
an addy story
she has figured out how to open our freezer (we have a fridge w/ the freezer on the bottom). BIG oh no. & apparently she really likes straws also. so today i hear some rustling while i'm upstairs rocking amelia to sleep. i come down very quietly a few minutes later to spy on her. i see her emptying the freezer of all her favorite things: chicken nuggets, fish sticks, & an ice pack, but she also was holding & sucking on this frozen, half gone milkshake w/ the straw still in it (wes loves to just stick things like that back in the freezer, then NEVER finishes it! eerrr, drives me crazy). i decide to scare her, so i kindly said: "addy!" & she completely jumps in the air, sticks the milkshake back into the freezer, slams the freezer shut & then looks at me w/ her hands in the air. she gave me the most innocent 'where did all these other things come from?' look & said "hhmmmm, huh, hmmm" several times. i just find it hilarious that she thinks i didn't know what she was doing. she just cracks me up.
2 comments:
Oh what a great Addy story! Sorry you've been feeling crappy this week, it's so tough when the kids still demand your time and don't understand, but kudos to Wes for taking care of you!
True confessions time -- I put the milk shake in the freezer, not Wes......
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