What A Week!

Oh my, this has been quite a week - a rough week!

On Monday, I witnessed a dog fight with my neighbors dog and two other dogs that have gotten loose before. The last time one of them attacked our dog. Anyway, long story short, the dogs tried to attack me as I stood at my neighbor's door watching for the Animal Control guy to come pick them up. So I was basically traumatized for the rest of the day and I have to testify in court at some point - so I've been having to answer lots of questions and phone calls over the last few days.

Monday night Lily screamed all night and pulled on her ear. I got her in to the doctor early Tuesday morning, and for sure, she had infections in both ears and one ear drum was blistered and very close to bursting. Bless her heart, it's just so hard seeing your little one sick!

So we got her an antibiotic and Motrin (for inflammation) and headed home assuming all would be fine. Lily took her first dose of antibiotic and Motrin just fine, but when I tried to give her the second dose of each, she literally fought me! I have no idea why she wouldn't take them. I tried putting them in everything I could think of, and tried giving them to her in about 10 different syringes - all to no avail.

I was a mess. She was a mess. Jacob was not home.

Late Tuesday night when Jacob got home, we tried again, but even with 2 people we couldn't get her to take them. She choked, spit up, cried, and fought.

On Wednesday morning Jacob called the doctor's office and told them what was going on. He told them that I was nearly 38 weeks pregnant and couldn't fight with Lily twice a day for the next 10 days to get the medicine down her. So, we bundled up and headed back to the doctor to get a shot of antibiotic.

The shot was not fun, but thankfully we don't have to fight anymore - except with the Motrin, but that's not too bad.

Lily will take Tylenol just fine. I have no idea what it is about the Motrin that she doesn't like. I even got the dye-free kind that's the same flavor as the Tylenol.

Ok, so add pregnancy hormones to all that and what do you have? A mommy who has cried more in the last 3 days than she has since Lily was a tiny baby! Trust me, it's been b.a.d.!!

I bawled:
- when the dog catcher got the 2 vicious dogs locked up
- all night Lily was screaming and I didn't know what to do
- on the phone with my mom, the doctor's office, Jacob, and my midwife
- when Lily wouldn't take her medicine
- in anticipation of the shot
- during the shot
- dealing with a grumpy baby
- etc...

Can I just say, it's hard being a mommy sometimes! Do any of you ever feel that way??

Along with all this, I had several food fails that I must mention.

Fail #1 - On Tuesday, I popped a frozen pizza in the oven for Jacob's lunch. The next thing we know, the kitchen is filling with smoke and the pizza is quite black!

Fail #2 - On Wednesday, I was making Jambalya for supper. As I was cutting up the smoked sausage, I noticed it was a different texture than normal. When I looked at the package, I saw that I'd bought Turkey sausage instead of the normal Beef sausage that we get! I thought maybe it would taste ok and Jacob wouldn't notice the difference. HA, in my dreams! As the Jambalya cooked, the sausage pieces swelled up really big and they tasted nothing like Beef sausage.

Fail #3 - Tonight I was in the middle of making homemade pizza, and I realized we had no pasta sauce and nothing to "make do" with! I just had to laugh at myself because just a little while before I'd thought to myself how nice it was that I hadn't had a food fail for the third day in a row! LOL. That's what I get for prideful thinking! ha.

Thankfully today was a much better day (besides the pizza sauce fail) and Lily seems to be feeling better!