There have been a number of factors happening in and around our household over the past two weeks that have colluded, creating a big of havoc. I was adding them up in my head, since I have a hacking 3 year old sharing the bed with me tonight and couldn't sleep (especially since she did the dreaded and rolled out onto the floor).
warm weather
+ humidity
air conditioner unit in the upstairs window
warm weather
+ humidity
+ no furnace on
a suddenly damp basement (though lower hydro bills will be welcomed)
an air conditioner
+ a damp basement
a child, prone to chest infections, getting a serious one - from no cold to very rattly chest and strong antibiotics within 2 days
rapidly rising warm air
+ humidity
sudden short thunderstorms, sometimes intense with hail
thunderstorms
+ a three year old who can be scared by the buzz of a fly (or the now present mosquito)
sheer terror (suddenly rain is very scary, trucks going by outside have her shaking in fear, airplanes overhead have her screaming - and this during the daytime, too, and from the girl who was seemingly not afraid of anything!)
sheer terror
+ giving of the soother to the Soother Fairy
+ a sudden hole right in the centre of the favourite blanket ("Bubby")
a child who suddenly won't sleep and is quite inconsolable
a child popping in and out of her room until post-midnight night after night
+ a tired, gall-stoned, PMSed Mom
grumpiness that feels set in my bones
Based on the current level of sleep, the best option seems to give the Soother Fairy back the treats she left and go and buy a new one tomorrow. We would have tonight, but nothing in Winnipeg is open after 6:00 on a Sunday. I ended up digging through A's box of sentimental baby items and found her old soother, which seemed to help Iz settle down at 11:30 (plus the move to my bed). Thankfully, Ai has adjusted really quite well and has gotten back into having naps without one, so I don't think he'll be stealing hers. So that about sums it up. Not a very happy post, but perhaps a plea that we'd appreciate prayer for our family. S and I feel utterly maxed, as he has been flying here and there and has so much on his plate this month. I'm sure our very over-tired, seemingly traumatized Iz feels pretty maxed, too. The expectations for the week will have to be set for the low bar of just being kind and not worrying about much else, I think.
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Here it is 4:30 in the afternoon and we've been making it through the day, but we've had confirmation of another very unwelcome visitor, which I'd started to suspect yesterday:
A sleepover with a friend (who unknowingly had lice at the time)
+ sharing of hair items & bedding
+ time
hatching of nits & scratchy heads!
While out on errands, I did a quick drop in to the doctor who confirmed that yes, I have lice! I'd noticed Iz madly scratching through the night, so suspected that the girls and I did for sure. After dinner, we'll be doing the shampoo treatment. The bedding is all collected and S is off to our favourite old Laundromat to start the mass amounts of wash. The stuffies are all bagged and now in solitary confinement. Just what we needed, but our friends recently had bedbugs, so a reminder that there is always something worse that can happen. Maybe this has been contributing to Iz's berserk behaviour . . .
2 comments:
=( Praying for you!
I dreamed that I had lice all night last night, lol! I'm sure our turn will come too once the kids are in school...
Yes, once you start thinking about them, it's hard not too feel itchy. Second time in my 30s to get them, but certainly its far worse having a family get them! It's tempting to go and get the girls some short hair cuts to make nit-picking easier as it's going to be a big time consumer over the next week. Not quite what I needed in my life . . . But easier to handle that what Iz has been going through on some levels.
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