Today started off with my patience and my joy being tested and it's so hard to start off a day like that. I had groggily woke up and looked at my phone to see what time it was and I had a text from my babysitter. Now seeing how it is 5:15 in the morning I took it as a text that probably needed urgent attention because I highly doubt she is texting me that early to remind me to bring diapers. Sadly she had came down with the stomach bug that is hitting everyone right now and has been up all night getting sick. So I text my mother in law (who is a farmers wife and I know she will be up at this time) and she replies back that she is already obligated to substitute teach. Plan B - My mom but seeing how she had just had Lil Hoff the day before I hated to burden her with him again. (She had also just gotten back from a mini vacation with my dad and hadn't even had time to get caught up AND I had already reserved her to help me with Lil Hoff's birthday party in a couple of days) Remember how thankful I was for my mom yesterday well it tripled today as she cancelled a doctors appointment to help me out and come take care of Lil Hoff.
So the day wears on with Lil Hoff getting up at 6:00 and coughing and has watery eyes and my nerves are on end as I think of his upcoming birthday party but I leave him in good hands with my mom. She calls later and reports that they are having a blast but he is coughing and had trouble sleeping because of coughing so he slept while she held him. As I went off with friends last night and had a very girlie night out with laughing so hard your afraid you are going to pee your pants (thats how you know you are with true friends), I put Farmboy on full Cough Patrol. With propping Lil Hoff's mattress up, Vicks on feet and chest, and the humidifier going with Vicks in it as well.
Fast foward to a little after 10:30, Lil Hoff starts coughing and I keep watching him in his monitor and the coughing isn't letting up. At 11:30 I climb out of bed and make my homemade cough syrup and at 11:45 as he is still coughing I get him up and give him a dose. We cuddle while we read a book and drink some milk and I lay him back down. About 12:30 he wakes up crying, so we cuddle some more while getting caught up on a DVR show and at 1:30 he is falling asleep in my arms. So I lay him down and then get into my own bed and am asleep by 2:00. My last thoughts were that surely with that cough syrup in him and the soothing smell of Vicks in his room he will seep well the rest of the night and even sleep in. After my shower this morning I had this sweet little face ready to greet me, "Hold Momma!"
So what I am thankful for today is at 11:30 at night as I am trying to Google the cough syrup recipe that I have made before but like a goof, didn't write down and I'm feeling helpless as my baby is coughing and not sleeping and the World Wide Web is so big and I can't remember exactly what was in it; that luckily I came across it and I love how those every day occurrences God shines down and says "Here child, I've got this".
and that I had all the ingredients and that after just one dose I didn't hear another cough from him.
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