A Long Week

So this week was a beast for our family. First of all Don was all the way in Montana for work... leaving me with the kids. It was the first time since Audrey was born that Don had to travel for work so it was the true test of my stamina.

The first day (with a full night of sleep because Don didn't leave until that morning) I forgot Ryan's lunch box for school- meaning that our normal 40 minute round trip drive turned into 80 minutes- thus cutting into Audrey's nap time which she decided to take 15 minutes of in the car so no morning nap once we got home. Not a huge deal except that her afternoon nap was only an hour so this was day one of her being really tired- and tired babies are cranky babies.

Well the normal day with my children starts at 5:30am, when Audrey wakes up. The day ends when Ryan finally falls asleep at 9:00pm. That is a long day of taking care of children. The doesn't include anything extra- like the final clean up of toys, all the extra cleaning, any moments of "me" time, and then giving myself time to fall asleep. We were actually making it okay- then on Thursday things started falling apart. Audrey was getting really tired- she is teething- and a rash started to appear (I think it was an allergic reaction to SOMETHING- I'm not entirely sure what, there are a few choices- I think for the time being I will avoid a few things). Then while playing outside Ryan got stung by a bee.

By Friday I got a call that Don had fainted in his hotel room, he woke up on the floor with blood on his face. He smashed his face into the floor when he fell and his face is pretty busted up. Instead of going to a doctor there, he went on his flight to come home as scheduled (luckily it didn't turn out to be a blood pressure issue which could have been made worse by the flight). My very long day was spent getting doctors appointments, worrying, taking care of kids, worrying some more etc. Instead of getting home at 1:45pm he got home at 5:00pm, after flight delays and the doctors appointment. The good news is that the initial test indicates that it could have been nothing but the beginning of an ear infection caused by his apparent allergy to dust mites which was exacerbated by staying at the hotel. He has to go back in for a heart echo and more blood tests to make sure everything else is okay.

It was a little much for me, I started to feel like I was falling apart, but at least everyone is under the same roof now. Hopefully we can get back to real life and now everyone will have a chance to heal.