Being sick hit hard this weekend and with the baby recovering from being sick takes longer since there’s no rest. I’m still feeling a little under the weather today and wasn’t going to write except we have a repairman here today doing maintenance on the HVAC system, so I have to do something while I wait. As the baby got over her sickness it felt like she had entered toddler mode where she’s been very clingy and fussy about everything. For instance I was trying to put her down at night and she asked for, I grabbed the book she pointed to, she breaks down in tears. When we had a newborn, her crying would shut down my brain to where I couldn’t do anything until it was resolved, now I’ve heard so much crying that I can at least manage. We were driving home from daycare and they had given her a tiny cup of water, the sort a dentist would have for the patient to rinse. She was chewing the cup and a sliver of plastic got stuck in between her teeth. I had to pull over so I could pull it out, but then she wanted to be held. We still needed to drive home and that’s what I did, she cried the whole way refusing anything I offered, no rest. Of course during these struggles, last Friday, the trash truck dropped our can in the truck leaving us without a place to put our trash, then they said it could take up to two weeks to get a new can. I still haven’t had time to replace my lawn mower belt, when it rains it pours. By the end of this week everything will probably be doing great, hopefully, once I feel better and can start cleaning up messes. For now rest as much as possible.
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