The Clore Household is a Mess!!

My blogging has been lagging these last few days because my household is a mess with sickness!

To start, Trent is STILL suffering from a double ear infection! We are now on a third (and hopefully, final) round of antibiotics. Apparently his ears are still are red and inflamed. To top it off, he has a 101.2 degree fever, a constant runny nose and horrible cough. Due to the fact that he won't take his hand out of his mouth and slobbering, I'm thinking that the fever and runny nose is due to his second year molars coming in but he won't let me open his mouth to look. He didn't get off the couch yesterday...literally. I had to sit on the couch with him all day while he cried, moaned and cuddled with me. I felt sooooo bad for him. If he isn't better by Monday, I'm making an appointment with an ENT to get to the bottom of this ear infection!

Then, Mark came home with a stuffy nose and sore throat which means that he snored like a lion all night long because he couldn't breath out of his mouth properly.

Thus, this is what my night last night consisted of. Trent waking up and crying in his room about every 20-30 minutes. This means that the video monitor woke me up every 20-30 minutes too. When I did manage to fall asleep, Mark's snoring would wake me up. If Mark's snoring didn't wake me up, Buster, the world's ugliest and most expensive dog, woke me up due to his constant scratching and biting (turns out, in addition to the staph infection, Buster also has an ear infection)! I couldn't put Buster out in the living room because he tends to bark at every noise or coyote howl outside which means that he wakes up Trent constantly. Rather than have an already exhausted and sick toddler waking up any more than he already was, I sacrificed my sleep as most mother's would (and should). This has been going on for two nights now and man, I am tired!!

Trent stayed in his own room until about 3 this morning, when he refused to lay back down in his crib. So, he slept in my bed from that point on which means that I really didn't get any sleep after that (with his cuddling, kicking, coughing and mouth breathing right next to my ear). You woman out there now that when a man is sick, it is often the end of the world and I have two men that are not feeling well so my world is a mess right now. My house is a disaster and my Christmas decorations are still up because Trent won't let me put him down to do anything.

Trent is the best thing that has ever happened to me. I love that kid more than life itself and being a mother is hard when he's feeling well but it is really, really hard when he is sick! Not only do I feel horrible because there is nothing I can do to make him feel better but I have not had a "me" moment for about a week now! The baby wouldn't stop kicking and pressing on my bladder yesterday but Trent wouldn't let me get off the couch to leave him so I didn't even have a moment to go to the restroom. Motherhood with all of it's joys, is sacrifice and lack of selfishness. It reminds me that as a mother, I am the last person to get what I want and I suppose that's how it should be. It is times like these that I am so thankful to my own mother because it makes me think about all of the times that she was the last person to eat, to sleep, to really do anything for herself; she always put her kids first and I know that is how I am with Trent and it makes me proud to know that I put my child first.

I can't believe Trent is even letting me type this right now! I just wanted to give a quick update on my absence because I've noticed that I've had a lot of views lately but no new posts. Hopefully my little monster will feel better soon (and my big monster) and everything will get back on track shortly because my house is a mess and in desperate need of a good cleaning!