So much for happy new year...
Andrew and I are supposed to be off at the annual New Year's party catching up with our college friends. You know, being all adult-like and stuff, while my parents babysit Corwin for us. Instead, we are hanging out at my parents' house, because Corwin picked yesterday to come down with his very first cold ever.
His only visible symptom is congestion, and even that seems to come and go. But he's refusing to sleep worth beans (even worse than usual for being not at home), and started today to be much more clingy to mommy than usual. We had a rough night last night, and I was up with him just after 6 a.m. this morning (after about 4 hours total of sleep for me). Sometime around 8:30 I was able to hand him off to Andrew and go back to bed for a while; I dozed (with occasional interruptions) until noon, and have been doing fairly well since then, other than the stressball-ness of worrying about and trying to take care of Corwin and keep him as comfortable as possible. Corwin had a 45-minute nap this morning and a 20-minute nap this afternoon. I started trying to put him to bed for the night sometime between 5:30 and 6:00 this evening; I'm honestly not sure if he's asleep yet. We gave up around 7:30 and got him up for a bath and then sat in the bathroom with the shower on to steam out his head a bit, and I tried putting him to bed again just before 8:30. I _think_ he might be asleep now since I don't hear him out in the living room (Andrew was going to bring him down for my parents to deal with for a while if he wasn't calming down after 10 minutes, and it's been about 40). But I'm hiding in here on the computer because I needed a break, badly. If he is up, he needs to not see me, or I'll be back on mommy duty, stat!
So we're missing our first New Year's party since we graduated I think. But I'd rather be here where I can take care of Corwin if he needs me. I know my parents would call if anything came up that they couldn't handle, but I'm happier being here where I'm accessible than 40 minutes away across town.
I know no one's going to read this until tomorrow, but I hope you all have a better NYE than we are. Barring major accidents or the like, that shouldn't be too hard.
*HUGS* to all!
His only visible symptom is congestion, and even that seems to come and go. But he's refusing to sleep worth beans (even worse than usual for being not at home), and started today to be much more clingy to mommy than usual. We had a rough night last night, and I was up with him just after 6 a.m. this morning (after about 4 hours total of sleep for me). Sometime around 8:30 I was able to hand him off to Andrew and go back to bed for a while; I dozed (with occasional interruptions) until noon, and have been doing fairly well since then, other than the stressball-ness of worrying about and trying to take care of Corwin and keep him as comfortable as possible. Corwin had a 45-minute nap this morning and a 20-minute nap this afternoon. I started trying to put him to bed for the night sometime between 5:30 and 6:00 this evening; I'm honestly not sure if he's asleep yet. We gave up around 7:30 and got him up for a bath and then sat in the bathroom with the shower on to steam out his head a bit, and I tried putting him to bed again just before 8:30. I _think_ he might be asleep now since I don't hear him out in the living room (Andrew was going to bring him down for my parents to deal with for a while if he wasn't calming down after 10 minutes, and it's been about 40). But I'm hiding in here on the computer because I needed a break, badly. If he is up, he needs to not see me, or I'll be back on mommy duty, stat!
So we're missing our first New Year's party since we graduated I think. But I'd rather be here where I can take care of Corwin if he needs me. I know my parents would call if anything came up that they couldn't handle, but I'm happier being here where I'm accessible than 40 minutes away across town.
I know no one's going to read this until tomorrow, but I hope you all have a better NYE than we are. Barring major accidents or the like, that shouldn't be too hard.
*HUGS* to all!