February 11, 2002

• Have I mentioned lately that I have an awesome husband???  Well I do.

  
  

  Remember I told you what a LOUSY night sleep we got Saturday.  Well last night was 100x worse.    Jamari was up and screaming for 2 hours in the night.  AFter the first hour & a half he was in bed with us.  And would settle down as long as I held him (a major personality switch)  But the second Rob talked he would jump and scream.      His whole body was twitching.  This is his first BAD drug withdrawl night he's done since we've had him.  It is so hard to watch.  There's nothing that can be done, except hold him tight.  And with some drug babies, that's the worst thing you can do because it scares them more.  Fortunately Jamari tolerated the cuddling, as long as nobody talked.   Eventually he fell asleep between us, and so we shared our queen sized bed with a twitchy 1 year old.   He's been fussy all day long.  And I've been exhausted.  I started contractions which woke me from a sound sleep about 45 minutes BEFORE Jamari started screaming, and they finally stopped about 7:15 tonight.  It was a long haul. 

  
  

  Today I was *supposed* to go grocery shopping.  We're talking, no milk, no cereal, you know the important things in life.  But the contractions were overwhelming, and the thought of dragging kids around with dh so I didn't have to lift was even more overwhelming.  So instead we got up no breakfast food in the house *ugh*  looked at each other and said RESTAURANT   So we took our 4 squirmy kids out to breaky and they were extremely well behaved.  (And we actually ate at a non-family restaurant too MMMM MMM)   Brought our kids home and all took a nap.  Soooooooo tired.

  
  

  Rob let me sleep when the kiddos woke up, and I did so until 12:30 this afternoon.  The rest of the afternoon I spent cuddling cranky, screaming babies...dependson the time of day which one I was cuddling.  And finally we decided to call the doctor and make appt for Jamari as we were concerned about his ears. 

  
  

  Unfortunately tonight was *supposed* to be our date night.  So Jamari got to come along with us to the doctors appointment...they squeezed us in at 7:30 tonight.  His ears are fine.....but he's still cranky.    Sooooooooo who knows whats wrong.

  
  

  Zeria when she heard the word doctor and that Jamari was going on the date pretty darn instantly got "sicK" herself.  We weren't buying it, and didn't give her a ton of sympathy.  Mom, my head hurts,  etc etc.    Welllllllllllllllllll we got home tonight after Jamari's doctor visit, and baby sitter's holding her saying she has a fever.  Yep, fever of 102.9.  Okay now I'm feeling bad about the lack of sympathy earlier.  *sigh*  She's on a mattress in our room tonight.  Gonna be another long night.

  
  

  And what exactly did we do on our date night??  We went yes thats right we went grocery shopping.  It seemed easier to do it together WITHOUT kids.  *sigh*  What has life come to????   So this is where the good dh awards comes in.  He was content to go grocery shopping on the one kid free night a week we have, because he KNEW how much stress it was gonna save us in the long run.  And oh it was nice to do it without the munchkins along (well Jamari was there, but oh well)

  
  

  I was soooooo proud of myself on Sunday.  I actually got the courage/organization to invite somebody over for lunch and to visit.  (She has kids my age of course lol)  Guess what?? tomorrow was supposed to be the day, and well...Zeria's sick.  ROFL  what else could go wrong?  Oh well she took a rain check for next week, and we'll try again.  BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

  
  

  Now at 8:30 at night Dh is hauling groceries in the house, load after load.  Do you have any idea how much 2 weeks of groceries is for a household of 6.  Oy are we gonna be in trouble when we hit the teen-age years  I think we're gonna have to take out a second mortgage

  
  

  Oh and he isn't just hauling them in, he's putting them away.  I LOVE Him   And tomorrow, yes tomorrow has to be a BETTER day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                       

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