As luck would have it...

So my little guy had to go into the doctor on friday morning because he had a double ear infection. He had been tugging at his ear for over a week, but there was no fever or congestion and he was showing signs of teething, so I just assumed that he was getting his first tooth. Anyway, as luck would have it, the poor guy has an infection in both ears :( {AND he's teething}.

Poor guy.

Anyway, this is the first sick appointment we had to make for Tj, so it was kinda nice to see that he had been cold-free during the last 7 to 8 months. But this thursday, we are planning to be in florida for a wedding for a very good friend of ours {we just were at one on Saturday for my cousin...and we have more to come. It's wedding season folks}. In any case, we planned to have the kids stay with Jus' parents so that we could have a mini vaca while there, and I'm hoping they get better by then so that we can have a worry free weekend {for them and for us}.

Hopefully, he'll go back to his cold-free state after we kick this one. But we'll see. I heard the mosquitos are going to be crazie this summer {I already have at least 4 mosquito bites since yesterday}.

:: sigh ::

Go away mosquitos. We don't need any weird flu-like-plagues being spread around this summer

Sick day?

So what do you do when you get sick? When your throat starts to get sore, when your body aches, when your head seems to, all of a sudden, be too small to hold in all the pressure that is pushing up against the sides, desperately trying to get out...

"Hello Boss, I can't come into work today..."

While the thought of laying on my couch in my snuggie with a hot cup of steaming, honey-infused, ginger tea, and a box of tissues nearby does sound appealing, Cj would be climbing on top of me trying to take my snuggie away while Tj would be too busy swiping the tissues out of the box before eating every single one.

Hmm...

Well, I am not really feeling sick enough that I would have called in, but whatever I am feeling is chasing away the appetite, the motivation and any energy that I would need to take on the workload that I have assigned to me for the day.

Colin and Travis.

All I can see is a picture of myself exhaustedly reaching towards them from my sad, fallen position on the kitchen floor while the boys dance and perform cartwheels {i realize travis can do neither if even colin could cartwheel} around me after taking about an hour to do everything they I have ever told them NOT to do.

How do you "call out of work" when work is with you. 24/7.
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The other concern is how to "stay away" from them so they don't catch whatever it is that ails me.  I can probably refrain from giving them millions of kisses, but I am still going to be holding them and feeding them and participating in all sorts of contact-full activities. I am not sure how to completely avoid them. Well, I guess they are going to just have to get immune real quick and show me that those vitamins are really doing the trick, or join misery.

Which reminds me I gotta go pick up Travie's vitamins.

:: sigh ::

Well, tomorrow is thursday, and thursday is cleaning day. I'm not sure how much cleaning is going to get done in this condition. Here's to hoping and praying this hot tea Jus made {thanks babe!} cures my ailing throat.

Cold, Cold, Go Away...

My usually independent, upbeat and energetic twenty month old was lethargic, weepy and clinging onto his "mommy" all morning. His eyes were slightly droopy and all he wanted to do was cuddle. Immediately, I could sense something was wrong. I picked him up and let him wrap his arms around my neck while I tried to soothe and calm this sad little being. My first thought: I'm going to have to take him to the doctor.... he probably has an ear infection (darn those pesky infections!) and of course, there is no way to get rid of it unless I got the oh-so-necessary script. But really? Both of my boys? Now? ...to the doctor?

All by myself?!

First of all Cj has seen too many medical buildings and healthcare personnel for this reason or that, and to no fault of his own, is probably scarred for life (as am I). But it's one thing just to take him in alone. Now I would have to take his new little brother along with me, and of course that trip was inevitable one of these days, but really, today? After he has only been to the doctor twice himself?  So what if our grocery run went wonderfully two days ago? There's no reason for another trip so soon.

But as I watched him sink miserably into the couch while mindlessly staring at was showing on the TV, I knew he had to go in. I made the call.

And then a miracle happened. My tall, dark and oh-so-wonderfully-handsome husband called right after I hung up the phone with the doctor, and after hearing the news, decided to meet us there.


Okay people, yes, its the small things in life that make a difference to me. So it may not have meant much to you, but that little act meant so much to me right then and there. 

Thank you God (and Jus)! At the end of the appointment we found out that all he has (that's what the doctor said) is a cold. But that's fine for now. Jus and I are certain we'll be back in two days as the congestion makes his way into his ears and results in the ever impending ear infection we are expecting. But either way, I was reminded that these new experiences can actually be manageable and not anxiety-ridden (i.e. the grocery shopping trip earlier this week) and well really, I'm just in Good Hands.