TechieChic

Low: Sam was super sick today. He’s had a runny nose and a cough recently that we had determined were allergy related (we deduced this scientifically – he went outside and it immediately got worse). Then last night his voice started getting hoarse like he had a sore throat which we also decided was probably allergy related. He didn’t sleep well last night after that. He didn’t actually wake up much but he was especially squirmy and rolled around the bed a lot like he couldn’t get comfortable.Then this morning he threw up. Not a ton, and I thought it could just be a result of all the mucus he had built up. But I also realized that Sam hadn’t really eaten much for his last several meals and had opted to play with his food instead. While this isn’t atypical behavior for Sam it was for that length of time. So I knew he definitely wasn’t feeling well, and just snuggled him and let him sleep on my lap. After a few more hours he woke up and suddenly puked the entire contents of his stomach onto me and my rocking chair. I had no idea that tiny body could contain that much volume! I quickly mopped off the chair and got Sam in the tub before realizing that I was also covered in puke and should probably remedy that. That was the only major puking incidence of the day but Sam was pretty miserable for the rest of the day as well and now has a fever! Poor little bean

High: My ward is awesome! After posting on facebook that Sam was sick I got two offers from people to pick stuff up for me at the grocery store and another offer to bring me some diapers in Sam’s size (especially helpful since Sam was also spewing out the other end). I was so touched by these wonderful examples of Christlike service. I’m really going to be sad to leave this ward.

Low: Although Eric managed to get enough sleep on Saturday night, Sam and I haven’t been getting much sleep lately. I think I’ve seen every other hour every night for the past few nights. I spent most of the day yesterday trying to convince Sam to take a nap, and then most of the evening trying to convince him *not* to nap so that he would sleep well. Apparently neither tactic worked so we saw midnight, 2am, and 4am before going out to the couch at 6am and waking up at 8am. I’m starting to think I’d be much happier with 5 hours of uninterrupted sleep than I am with 8 hours of interrupted sleep.

High: Eric brought Sam into our bed when he first woke up and let him sleep with us for a couple hours. As glad as I am to have Sam sleeping in his own bed, I’ve missed having our whole family snuggling together at night. Also I’ve almost got my new website put together which will be great to have finished

Low: Uhm, it’s the 24th of May and it’s snowing outside. Yeah, that was the view from out our study window this morning. Ew gross yuck. I keep wanting to box up all of our coats and snow gear as a start to preparing for our move… guess I’ll have to wait a little longer for that still. (Yes mom, I’m sure it is beautiful in California right now and we should move there. )

High: Sam is doing better at sleeping through the night, hurrah! Also, we ran the roomba last night so our front room is all vacuumed. Of course, when we run the roomba we move our furniture to be off the carpet so that we can get all the things that Sam has hidden under the coffee table, rocking chair etc as well. So usually when I wake up the morning after running the roomba I have to bring Sam out (while he’s still sleepy and cranky and hungry) and put him down for a minute while I take down the coffee table from the couch. But this morning the coffee table was already down when I got up! I was a little bit confused but very grateful that I didn’t have to make Sam mad and we could go straight to feeding him. I found out later this morning that Eric had woken up in the middle of the night needing a drink of water. While he was out in the kitchen he noticed that the roomba was done and thought of me trying to get the coffee table down while holding Sam and took it down for us. It may seem like a really small thing, but the fact that he thought of us in the middle of the night when he was half asleep really touched me. Best. husband. ever. Thank you Eric! I love you!

Low – This is my fourth attempt at writing this post now…

Also, just feeling inadequate to do all the things I ought to be keeping up with – work, cooking, laundry, mothering, blogging, sleeping, dishes, vacuuming, freelance projects, my calling, temple attendance, scripture reading, praying, exercising, grocery shopping, budgeting, dating (but only Eric of course), service, family home evening… not enough hours in the day!

High – I found a decent blogging client for my droid! Granted it’s super annoying to write a full post with my thumbs… but I can! Now I can blog from bed, woot!

Also, I got some super cute pictures of Sam while we were playing outside today – we’ll see if I can add them to this post…

Well after much trial and tribulation I’ve decided to settle for a link to the photo gallery. Maybe next time…

Samuel

Cute pictures of Sam

Low: This has been a ridiculously busy week. I’ve been working all week on a single page redesign on a website. It should have been a relatively easy project except that the requirements were impossible using conventional web design practices. So I had to use all kinds of strange methods and different programming languages just to get the page styled correctly. Ew. Yuck. Gross. Once I did have everything there was still the matter of getting the content on the page to work as well (I had a form that I had to trick it into thinking it had all the right data). On top of that I landed two new freelance projects and finally got the meeting set up for Theronyx with Axis41 so that we can get going on that website redesign and have another smaller freelance project that I’m supposed to have done. Oh yeah, and sleep training sucks (but don’t worry mom, I wouldn’t say sucks ). I haven’t been getting a ton of sleep lately with that going on. So needless to say, I’m a bit tired.

Highs: All of that work = money. While it would be nice if my projects would line up and come one at a time I’m grateful to have a job that I can do from home and earn good money. I’m really grateful for all of the opportunities that I’ve been blessed with.

Plus, Eric let me take a nap today when we got home from church while Sam napped. It wasn’t a super long nap, but it was definitely needed. If I can get to bed at a reasonable hour tonight I think I’ll be ready to take on this week.

Also, while sleep training still hasn’t worked 100%, we are doing MUCH better. Sam now takes all of his naps on his own in his bed which means I have at least a little bit of time to myself during the day (albeit, his naps are generally shorter than they are when he sleeps on my lap, but I’ll take what I can get). Plus he will go to bed by himself at night for about the first 3 hours of the night which also gives me a little bit of time to wrap things up for the day while he sleeps. However, he usually wakes up not long after I go to bed – usually about the time I’m ready to drift off. I’m thinking he might be scared of the dark or maybe dislikes the total quiet that comes over the house when Eric and I go to bed. We might need to invest in a night light and start playing him some white noise again. Luckily he usually sleeps well once I hop in bed with him and I can get some sleep too. He has a queen sized memory foam mattress that I got at Walmart for ridiculously cheap so there’s plenty of room for both of us – even when Sam lays sideways – and Eric doesn’t get kicked out of bed. Win-win-win!

However, the real high this weekend came on Saturday morning. I woke up with Sam and I was feeling pretty overwhelmed with everything that I needed to get done that day and I was tired. I turned on my computer and saw this email -

Ryan and Taylor took Sam for the entire afternoon so that I could finish off that ridiculous project. It was really nice to finally get that project completed. After I finished it Eric and I had a “date” – if you consider eating semi-burnt potstickers at our kitchen table while listening to Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me a date (which apparently I do ). And we were able to get our house cleaned up so we could have guests over that evening. It was funny because I’m used to only not having to take care of Sam when he’s sleeping so I felt like I needed to whisper the whole time he was gone. I feel so much more ready to face this week after getting our lives a little bit more in order. So I really want to say a huge THANK YOU to Taylor and Ryan for helping me out yesterday, it really meant a lot.

On to this week!