A New Day

So, sometime in her 13 hours of sleep, the aliens brought my happy baby back! The baby who will play with her sisters, eat her food, laugh a little, dance a little, take a long nap, throw a couple of fits along the way. This is great news. We love our screaming baby, but we sure feel bad for her and we really do love to enjoy our happy baby.

Other good news. Despite all the drama of the day and a half, we managed to give our yard a much needed face lift. We have been dealing with a weed back yard since we moved into our rental. That weed back yard turned into a dirt backyard, which is just a pain all around! So, we decided to lay down a little sod. I mean this state has enough dirt. I need some green! :)

BEFORE

AFTER

Quite a day!

Well...here it goes. Quite the day it was yesterday...and today for that fact! It started off well with a bike ride with my sweetheart and yard work. But, the baby had other plans. I don't know if it is teething, tummy aches, headaches or just plain temper tantrums, but my happy baby has cried for two full days. If I even think about setting her down, she throws her face into the floor, (hopefully carpet, but sad to say sometimes on the tile) and screams. We tried everything we could think of. I was going to take her to the dr. but ran into some insurance issues. She is fine because she does stop crying when she is held, for the most part, so I know it is just a regular child thing, but I am tired today. So here what my night was like:

11 - set up pack and play in my room because she will not calm down and I need to be able to get to her fast during the night, if there's any hope of sleep at all.
1:30 - finally get her to sleep for the night
3 - Five year old comes in with a tummy ache...I send her potty and back to bed
4 - Five year old comes in with tummy ache and says she's going to throw up. I put her in bathroom, by toilet, with pillow and blanket.
5 - I hear crying, so I run out of my room to find five year old in hallway, mid throw up. I run her to the bathroom, only to slip in a big pile of throw up already on the floor. I didn't fall, but I did swear. Oops! (Didn't I make this child a comfy bed on the bathroom floor? :) ) I left child in bathroom after the sick spell was over and continued to clean up all the you know what...on carpet in her room and on the tile. I sanitized, put things in washer and went back for child. I tucked her into bed, with a towel under her and told her to stay there.
6:30-after this whole ordeal, I cleaned up with a shower and got older girls up to get ready for school and was greeted by a screaming baby.

My husband said it best last night...is this one of those hard parenting days? You betcha it is. Happy Friday!....and here's to a sleeping baby now! :) I hope the aliens bring back my happy baby by tomorrow!

Some thoughts...

I have been thinking a lot lately about different things. I was at a baby shower the other day and a girl from church said that she remembers a talk that I gave two years ago and that something that I said stuck with her. After I was able to close my mouth from the shock of hearing that :) I was able to talk to her about it. I was talking about how we perceive the things around us. When I walk outside, instead of just noticing an object, like a tree or a car or a bush, I try to notice the space around the object. This is especially helpful when I feel like I am suffocating in my own little world. It helps to put the perspective of how there is so much more "space" than "things" in this world. It helps me to breathe and bring things back into perspective at how small I am and my problems are.

The sad part about this story, is it took her reminding me of what I said for me to remember one of the most important soul soothers that I use to do. The great part about this story is that now I am reminded and have been noticing things in that way again. The other great part is that in the last few weeks I have gone through a definite shift in my life. Nothing has changed, except me. I feel happier and I feel like I have changed my "state" of being. It has not been easy, but I have been working especially hard on it, with a lot of help from my Father in Heaven. Now, instead of getting sad and stressed about all the things I'm not able to do right now, I have been able to be 100% grateful for what I can do. When I go to Costco, I am not getting more and more depressed about all the things I can't or shouldn't get at the moment, I am just glad I can be there getting anything at all! :) ha ha, lame example!!! So, between that and getting out more and hiking and biking, I am feeling happy, no matter my circumstances. I am very blessed with an incredible hubby who is my best friend. We make everything an adventure together and there is no one I would rather share the adventures with. I have amazing kids, who are full of love and happiness. I have great health and strength to take care of them and have some fun in the process! I have great sisters and great friends. Really, isn't this what it's all about anyway?!!!