Been up since 2 am. Nemo has croup with trouble breathing in the night, so spent the wee hours in the Emergency Center getting him checked. They cultured for RSV, but he's negative, so he's just got a cough, but he was clearly in distress so they gave him a steroid. Cleared him right up, but then he crashed hard, and has slept peacefully much of the day since then. We got home at 6 am, right in time for me to work on getting the others up and off to school. BigDaddyFish had a meeting this morning early so I was doing it all by myself. Sunny doesn't nap and we have activities scheduled for the rest of the day, so it's unlikely I'll get to sleep before bedtime tonight. Ug.
Trout's having some issues with a friend, and we are seeing hints of her..um..lack of remorse about hitting her sister, and general being mean to her siblings and others. I seem to recall some issues with my cousins about this age - she's almost 8 - are kids that age just going through a stage where they are just...little shits? I pray it's that and she'll outgrow this and that she isn't a budding psychopath.
My babysitter for Thursdays called and had to cancel because she's getting an ingrown toenail operated on, and I really, really look forward to having some time to myself and some one-on-one time with Sunny when I pick her up from preschool. I feel guilty because I recognize what a luxury it really is to be able to whine about missing that time - some people never get it.
BigDaddyFish is going through an existential crisis, basically second-guessing a decision he has made about something that I can't blog about yet, and the stress of that is really getting to me. I am worried about him and our family.
And Target already has Christmas decorations out for sale. Right next to the Halloween costumes. WTF?
So far the only bright spot is that my Blog Exchange post won Best of Blog Exchange for October. I want to thank my fellow BE participants for voting for me, and would like to note that I am in great company - I am so not worthy. Pop on over and read the other winning posts. Blog Exchange is a fun way to stretch your writing muscles - do consider participating if you don't already.
I'm going to go try and convince Sunny she's tired. Or put on Ninja Warrior, or something.
movies = babysitters. It's all good.
I'm glad nemo seems to be doing better. I know how bad ER visits suck.
Posted by: ktjrdn | October 03, 2007 at 03:03 PM
ugh! Sounds like a completely crappy week. I hate that when it seems that I can not take another _____(insert random word here) I get slammed with even more crap. Hope things start looking up for you, and CONGRATS on your winning post :)
Posted by: Angi | October 03, 2007 at 11:03 PM
Man. I'm having one of those days/weeks too. But congrats on your post!
Posted by: Zoot | October 04, 2007 at 04:48 PM