Family Outing
We had a family outing today. It’s been a long time since we went out anywhere as a family. The kids had been sick for the past months, and I was at my wit’s end waking up 2-3 times a night dealing w/fevers, pukes, and inconsolable cries.
Do you have a husband who sleeps thru anything? Or maybe you have a husband who has selective hearing? Yeah, you husbands know who you are. I find that after I gave birth, my hearing sharpened (if that’s the right term). I can hear them roll over in their bed in the middle night down the hall from my bedroom.
And as for my husband, he would say like “oh did Sophia wake up last night?†and she was up 2-3 times crying and I felt like crying myself holding her at 3 in the morning when she refuses to go back to sleep (don’t you love your parents much more now that you are a parent yourself?).
Did you know that if you give your child Tylenol to reduce the fever and he/she pukes it everything out…you can give him/her some other medicine to relieve the fever and it’s O.K. As long as it’s not the same medicine that the child threw up. I found that out one night when Trent, w/a 103 temp., threw up everything on his bed and Pj’s.
I called the pediatrician on-call (awoke from her sleep) groggily mumbled that I can give Trent Motrin. And H.E.’s out there, rinsing out stinky puke at 2 in the morning (after changing Trent’s sheet and PJ’s while your husband snores in bed) is the the glory of being an H.E, right?! But would you trade this job for anything else in the world? The most underpaid, overworked, and underappreciated job in the whole world. And we love it, yes we love it, and yes we love it!! I’m sorry…was I in a trance?
We had a family outing today. It’s been a long time since we went out anywhere as a family. The kids had been sick for the past months, and I was at my wit’s end waking up 2-3 times a night dealing w/fevers, pukes, and inconsolable cries.
Do you have a husband who sleeps thru anything? Or maybe you have a husband who has selective hearing? Yeah, you husbands know who you are. I find that after I gave birth, my hearing sharpened (if that’s the right term). I can hear them roll over in their bed in the middle night down the hall from my bedroom.
And as for my husband, he would say like “oh did Sophia wake up last night?†and she was up 2-3 times crying and I felt like crying myself holding her at 3 in the morning when she refuses to go back to sleep (don’t you love your parents much more now that you are a parent yourself?).
Did you know that if you give your child Tylenol to reduce the fever and he/she pukes it everything out…you can give him/her some other medicine to relieve the fever and it’s O.K. As long as it’s not the same medicine that the child threw up. I found that out one night when Trent, w/a 103 temp., threw up everything on his bed and Pj’s.
I called the pediatrician on-call (awoke from her sleep) groggily mumbled that I can give Trent Motrin. And H.E.’s out there, rinsing out stinky puke at 2 in the morning (after changing Trent’s sheet and PJ’s while your husband snores in bed) is the the glory of being an H.E, right?! But would you trade this job for anything else in the world? The most underpaid, overworked, and underappreciated job in the whole world. And we love it, yes we love it, and yes we love it!! I’m sorry…was I in a trance?
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