To start, this weekend was so much fun! In Glendale, AZ there's a annual Christmas tradition of small shops coming together to sell handmade products with food and games for the kiddos. I'm actually disappointed more every year because its getting more and more commercialized instead of staying in that small town feeling. Regardless of my growing up with this tradition its still something fun and magical for the kids.
Easily you could spend too much money at an event like this but my husband and I did our best to prepare our kids with what they were going to see and what we were going to be able to do with them. The two things we knew for sure we were doing were pictures with Santa, (how could we pass that up?!) And playing in the snow field. This was Julia's first time getting to experience and play in the snow, and she loved it! So much so that she cried when it was time to get out of the snow field.
Tho we didn't get to do a whole aweful lot, the kids got to do a couple games and get some tastey snacks. Overall the kids and us parents had a lot of fun enjoying a night out instead of being stuck at home.
Unfortunately, by the time we got home from spending a good 3 hours out in the cool air, the kids weren't feeling so good and all of us were beyond exhausted. Considering that everyone was feeling icky we decided not to go to church the next day. This was a very good call because come Sunday morning, our Julia was miserably sick. All day we dedicated to trying to get her to feel better. It started as cold symptoms and then came a fever with diarrhea and a very bad cough.
Joey and I did all we could before giving her medicine and finally had to get her a cough medicine. So our little princess was all lubed up with vicks on her chest, vicks on her feet with socks to hold the mess and smell, carmex on her lips to help keep them from chapping, a humidifier going full blast, tylenol for the fever and a cough suppressant (tylenol free) to help her symptoms subside.
After falling asleep at 8 and waking up 4-5 times from then until 1 am because of her cough, she finally fell asleep and hasn't coughed for almost an hour and a half which makes me one very happy momma.
Needless to say, tomorrow we'll be calling the doctor's office to see if we need to come in if she's still feeling this badly.
Being a parent has many helpless moments, and when your child is sick with something that the doctor's office most likely can't do anything about aside from what you've done, is definitely one of them. It always breaks my heart when my daughter is so sick and miserable but still trying to play and be a kid. She definitely didn't understand why mommy and daddy kept telling her to stay planted on the couch. But with many redirectionredirection and some love added all over the place with kisses and cuddles she ultimately did a very good job staying up on the couch resting and getting her liquids in.
Sometimes you're not going to be able to fix everything as much as you want to. That's something we need to remember as mom's and dad's. We can't fix everything no matter how badly we wish we could. Sometimes the best we can do is make our kids comfortable and knoe that they're loved, especially if they're sick. Whether its a cold or something more serious that they need drs for. A parents best asset is love and making sure their kids know without question just how much you love and care for them. Make sure they know before they grow too old. Until next time.
-Mrs. C
