Two evenings ago I noticed my throat was a little scratchy. The next day I was definitely sick. Not terribly sick, but some kind of virus. My throat hurts a little bit and my sinuses are plugged up. (Fucking sinuses, it’s always you.) I’m generally okay during the day, other than a sickly exhaustion, but at night the sinus party hits full swing.<\/p>\n
Last night sucked. She slept great until 1am and then it was fidgeting and squirming and whimpering all night. Then there was me, snorting and gagging.<\/p>\n
She had finally gotten comfortable and fallen asleep and I realized I needed to blow my nose and didn’t have a tissue. I carefully slid out of bed, tip-toed out the door into the bathroom, and blew my nose on a tissue.<\/p>\n
“Waaahhhh!” said Kate. I raced back in to find her sitting up, eyes closed, crying pathetically for me. I gathered her in my arms, whispered shhh, shhh<\/i> and laid her back down and nursed her to sleep again. She, thankfully, fell asleep. I got comfortable and snuggled in.<\/p>\n
And then I felt my nose start dripping and I realized I forgot to bring tissues in with me. I wasn’t going to leave and wake Kate up again so I ended up cursing silently and groping around in the crib for an old burp rag.<\/p>\n
The real kicker, though, was half an hour later. I had to roll over to let the mass of sludge in my sinuses squick from one side to the other. I grabbed my pillow to reposition it and there, right under my pillow, were two tissues.<\/p>\n
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Thankfully Kate isn’t full-out sick (yet) but either she has a bit of it or she’s coming down with it (or it’s something else entirely). She’s very clingy, very tired, and of course not sleeping well at night. I’m really hoping she’ll skip this one. It’s hard enough trying to take care of a clingy baby when I feel like crud. Today I laid on her bed for a while, letting her play with toys and crawl on me while I was semi-comatose. (But not asleep – I learned the hard way not to take my eyes off her while she’s playing nearby or I may end up with a concussion.) She wants to play and be active, she just doesn’t want me more than arm’s length away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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