Quiet around here, but not gone
I hope to resume posting next week. After I’ve recovered from pneumonia! I can’t believe I’m this sick. I’ve actually never been this sick. I’ve learned that rest is a key factor in healing from pneumonia, and all of you fellow parents out there know that when you’re taking care of kids, rest is not an option. I’ve had help this week, but it wasn’t enough. Today my husband drove Chee and Ess to my mom’s for the day and I was able to sleep much of the day away. It helped.
Meanwhile, Chee is dealing with her own set of issues -namely, allergies. When the pediatrician suggested daily Claritin, my heart sank. Taking medicine is not Chee’s strong suit. But wait! It comes in a chewable. There’s hope! Lucky for us, it’s purple even, which Chee has recently decided is her favorite color. It took some serious bribing the first night, a bit of a temper tantrum the second night, but tonight her Daddy just handed her the “candy” and she popped it in.
And let’s not forget Ess. She’s in for some changes in the next weeks as her Mama has decided to wean. Sixteen months of breastfeeding and I feel it’s time. Mainly because I think she’d rather nurse than eat regular food. It’s getting increasingly difficult to find anything she’ll eat. Apparently at Grandma’s today she ate up a storm. Wonder why? Tonight she went to bed without nursing even. My only time frame for nursing was that I knew we’d do it for a year and then go from there. Chee nursed for 22 months, I weaned her when I was about 5 months pregnant with Ess.
So that’s the news from our neck of the woods. Quiet, but healing, with high hopes to be all better next week.
I hope the weekend is quiet and restful, and that you are feeling much better soon. And good luck with the weaning.
Hey, that bites. Pneumonia sucks.
I bet you already knew that.
I hope you’re on the mend soon… it really is a miserable thing to be sick and trying to keep children alive.
(I’m sorry, I cannot stop myself, but I have to respond to the “candy” bit… maybe you’re just referring to it that way for the blog, in which case, ignore me now. But it’s a dangerous thing to refer to medicines as candy with kids, makes them at risk for accidental overdose and such. Sorry, sorry, go back to resting and recovering…
Feel better, hope you can continue to rest whenever possible. Good luck with the weaning, sounds like she’s pretty ready, too!
Hope you feel better soon!
We’ve had good luck with the grape-flavored Claratin, too.
Feel better soon
[...] blessed with some much needed sunshine and warm weather today. I am nearly fully recovered from my ailments. Finally. Poor Ess, though, she has a loooooovely case of conjunctivitis and a double ear [...]