My FRUIT BOWL

The kids are asleep, Dave is at practice, Katie is at YA, and I am in a daze. The past 2 weeks have been a rollercoaster of really bad and really good days, and I can’t figure out if the weeks have been crawling or flying by. I’ve had some fantastic days and moments with my beautiful family and great friends over the past little bit, but also some horrible ones. On Monday I thought I was dying, and after seeing my doc, yesterday, it turns out I have both a sinus infection and mastitis. What is worse than the fever and chills, and localized pain, is the intense fatigue and constant body ache. If only I could just sleep....

Speaking of sleep, my darling Janna, who seemed to be settling into being up only once per night, has been getting up 3-4 times per night for the past few weeks. Last night, she did a bit better, but I was having a hard time sleeping with anxiety over the upcoming day.

You see, we had Jesse’s GI appointment on Tuesday. We have an endoscopy booked to look into Celiac and milk issues. But, in the meantime, we were advised to do a pico-salax bowel cleanse to clear out the child. A day on clear fluids only, and lots of poo.... So, I was sort of stressed out about how that was going to go. Every morning when I go into Jesse’s room to get him, he gives me a big hug and says “Hi Mommy. Toast?!” He likes to eat. I thought he would be 100% miserable all day. However, I was totally surprised with him. He was an angel all day! He had an hour of frequent bowel activity, but was otherwise sweet and happy and adorable. I’m not sure if he was on a sugar high from all the juice and freezies? Or maybe feeling lighter? Or maybe feeling better not having a potential allergen in him? Or maybe people were feeling bad for me and doing lots of praying?

Anyways, I’m grateful for that mercy today as my antibiotics are making me feel pretty junky, and I still feel rather exhausted. I took out my camera to snap a few pics of the kids, but ran out of steam after taking one picture of my supposed fruit bowl. I don’t know how, but EVERY TIME I clean this bowl out of it’s random contents, they pile back up. There are meds, and toothpicks, and gum, and our smoke detector, and a dishwand head... and of course fruit. Hmmm....that was off topic. Hoping my next entry will be a little more ...together. Thanks for reading. I’m out.