Today I miss Paul. I miss having him with me in the car. I miss going out to dinner with him. I miss spending the day running errands with him and stopping for lunch. I miss having him here to help with Emma. I miss making each other laugh. I miss holding hands and kissing and hugging.
I know he will be home before I know it, but for now I miss him. My heart aches with that missing.
Friday, October 7, 2011
Thursday, October 6, 2011
It Really Is True
I always thought people that had kids would make up stuff so that people who didn't have kids would decide to have some and share their misery. Stuff like "it's different when it's your own kids." This was mostly said in conjuction to somthing gross happening usually involving a substance coming out of the nose, mouth, or bottom.
I remember gagging when my God-daughter woke up with a terrible cold after spending the night at my house. I've never seen so much snot and subsequently spent the entire drive to take her home gagging.
But
It really is true! It's different when it's your own kids. I've picked boogies out of Emma's nose more time than I can count because my nails work way better than that stupid boogie catcher and even though I gag when I cough up my own phelgm the last week she threw up in my bed 4 or 5 times because she was congested and I didn't gag once. I admit she has had some diapers that have made me gag a little, but those were way stinky and gross.
In other news we are settling in to our lives in FL. We've been here 2 weeks as of tomorrow and I will be celebrating by pre-ordering my new iPhone. Yay! Paul is almost halfway through with his deployment. Double Yay! Yay!
And I've started a Couch to 5K program in an attempt to get in shape and lose some weight. I am so out of shape that I will be repeating week 1 next week, but at least I'm gettin out there and the days I don't run I make myself walk. Emma loves the stroller and looking around so at least she is enjoying it.
I am off to read in bed. Em is finally back in her crib after sleeping with me for the last several days. Tomorrow Grandma is babysitting so mommy can go get a facial and a massage. Wish her luck!
I remember gagging when my God-daughter woke up with a terrible cold after spending the night at my house. I've never seen so much snot and subsequently spent the entire drive to take her home gagging.
But
It really is true! It's different when it's your own kids. I've picked boogies out of Emma's nose more time than I can count because my nails work way better than that stupid boogie catcher and even though I gag when I cough up my own phelgm the last week she threw up in my bed 4 or 5 times because she was congested and I didn't gag once. I admit she has had some diapers that have made me gag a little, but those were way stinky and gross.
In other news we are settling in to our lives in FL. We've been here 2 weeks as of tomorrow and I will be celebrating by pre-ordering my new iPhone. Yay! Paul is almost halfway through with his deployment. Double Yay! Yay!
And I've started a Couch to 5K program in an attempt to get in shape and lose some weight. I am so out of shape that I will be repeating week 1 next week, but at least I'm gettin out there and the days I don't run I make myself walk. Emma loves the stroller and looking around so at least she is enjoying it.
I am off to read in bed. Em is finally back in her crib after sleeping with me for the last several days. Tomorrow Grandma is babysitting so mommy can go get a facial and a massage. Wish her luck!
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Baby Diva Strikes Again
What a week! I think it was on Tuesday that I noticed poor Beast was not feeling himself so the vet allowed us to come in at 5:15pm. After antibiotics and what not I got home to a sick, feverish baby. Poor little darling. I took her temp and it was 103.1 so I called our on call service in MA. A few minutes later and my phone rang and it was our friend Rebekah. She was the on call doc that night. Sweet! I dosed Em up with baby tylenol and took her temp again at bed and it was down to 102.1. I thought she was going to be fine. Just as I was getting ready for bed around 10pm Em woke up crying. When I went in to get her she was burning up and her temp was back up to 103.7. Since Rebekah was on call and I have her personal cell number I just called her back directly (haha gotta love being friends with your doc) and she said to go to the ER. I didn't want to go to the crappy hospital in Venice so I called my mom to go with me to the good hospital in Sarasota. Turns out Em had a slight UTI and the start of a virus.
The ER doc prescribed an antibiotic and we stopped at the all night Walgreens only to find out none of the Walgreens stock this medicine because most insurances won't pay for it and it's expensive. I guess there isn't much military in this county. haha Our insurance will pay for anything. We went home and I let Em sleep with me because she was so uncomfortable.
The next day I called CVS, Publix, and the apothocary the local hospital uses and no one had this drug! Is it made of gold? WTH! I had to call the hospital back and ask for a new script and yay it was one of the Publix free meds. I totally forgot Publix did that.
So, Em is finally feeling better and we head to Publix the other day. Shopping with her here takes about 8 times longer than it normally does because every senior citizen in the store wants to come up and talk to her and touch her. I'm surprised at how many of them bust out with "What's on her face?" Um, it's a birth mark, but I've decided I'm going to start making stuff up (squirrel bit her, I colored on her with a marker, tattoo, what are you talking about?). And seeing as we are currently living in God's waiting room you can only imagine how many senior citizens are in the store at any given moment in time.
Em, being the baby diva she is, eats up the attention and gives smiles to everyone. She is quite the little flirt and I can see that her daddy is going to have his hands full as she gets older. I hope he's preparing himself.
Tomorrow I am back on WW and starting Couch to 5k. Blogs to follow I am sure!
The ER doc prescribed an antibiotic and we stopped at the all night Walgreens only to find out none of the Walgreens stock this medicine because most insurances won't pay for it and it's expensive. I guess there isn't much military in this county. haha Our insurance will pay for anything. We went home and I let Em sleep with me because she was so uncomfortable.
The next day I called CVS, Publix, and the apothocary the local hospital uses and no one had this drug! Is it made of gold? WTH! I had to call the hospital back and ask for a new script and yay it was one of the Publix free meds. I totally forgot Publix did that.
So, Em is finally feeling better and we head to Publix the other day. Shopping with her here takes about 8 times longer than it normally does because every senior citizen in the store wants to come up and talk to her and touch her. I'm surprised at how many of them bust out with "What's on her face?" Um, it's a birth mark, but I've decided I'm going to start making stuff up (squirrel bit her, I colored on her with a marker, tattoo, what are you talking about?). And seeing as we are currently living in God's waiting room you can only imagine how many senior citizens are in the store at any given moment in time.
Em, being the baby diva she is, eats up the attention and gives smiles to everyone. She is quite the little flirt and I can see that her daddy is going to have his hands full as she gets older. I hope he's preparing himself.
Tomorrow I am back on WW and starting Couch to 5k. Blogs to follow I am sure!
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