Covid vs. Sickness

My whole family has been sick.

Started with my daughter, then my boys and then me and my husband.

The last two days have been the worst for me.

But what’s even worse? Thinking you have Covid.

Yesterday I dragged all 3 of my kids with me to go get tested because I had to call into work and call off my nanny.

Why?

Because a “cold” can now scare the living death out of a mom, an employer and a pregnant nanny.

Instead of just getting rest and feeling better, we add worry of a test result, we add worry of quarantining with 3 young kids alone and we add worry about dragging a sick family out of the house for a test.

So instead of one day off, I had to take two.

A day for worry and now finally a day of rest.

I’ve slept over 11 hours today alone.

I couldn’t do that yesterday with my kids.

So instead of taking one day off to get rest and feel better, I took two.

All because of Covid.

Fill Your Cup

What fills your cup?

Getting out of the house fills my cup.

Whether that be:

• Date night after passing the hardest test of my school career

• Going to the fair with friends

• Taking the kids swimming

• Going overnight kid free

• A week long vacation

• Sitting outside watching the kids play

It all helps after long hours, endless parenting and added stress.

It doesn’t have to be expensive, luscious or a huge time commitment.

It doesn’t even have to be leaving the house.

But a break is a break no matter how small and THAT is what matters.

Our society compares too much.

Our society judges too much.

So any little thing that fills up your cup, is that much more important.

Medication Free!!

Today marks the first day without having to give our youngest son heart medication!

If you’ve never given a infant/child medication for months/years on end, you will not understand why we are rejoicing!

But I’ll try to explain it to you.

No more waking up a sleeping child to give him his medication.

No more alarms set to remind you.

No more packing a bottle of meds and syringes whenever you’d leave the house.

No more asking if he’s already been given his medication by the other parent or nanny.

No more worry about him getting it too early.

No more fear of what will happen if he does get it early (only happened once!).

No more temperature regulation if it’s too hot or too cold.

No more forcing a baby to take it (he has been a pro the last year!).

No more choking on yucky medication when it goes down the wrong tube.

No more explaining to older siblings why he gets medication and they don’t.

& hopefully, no more 6 month echos!!

So yes, today we celebrate!

Because today, Finley is medication free!