Fairy Princess

For Christmas/our 11 year anniversary... Colin and I got a new mattress.   It was expensive.   Also WAY overdue.   At least according to the commercials that repeatedly told me how nasty and full of dust mites my 11 year old mattress was. 

Plus, ours was really uncomfortable.

So we did it.  Then we bought a bed, too....

since we had never done that either.  

We "made" a headboard with plywood and fabric 10 years ago.

Our nightstands were some that I babysat for (I think I babysat for a week and took those home as payment from the family that also owned a furniture store).

So, new mattress, led to new bed, and now to new nightstands. And new bedding.

I'm nesting a bit, I guess.

 

Anyway, the kids got a kick out of it, because they can't really jump on it anymore.   They just kinda sink (it's a memory foam thing).

 

Maggie was sporting one of her favorite dress up outfits ...

thank you to Margaret Louis for gifting this fairy costume to her. 

She takes own a whole new persona when she puts it on : )

 

 

 

 

 

Oh this little girl brings me so much joy. 

Her most favorite thing to do right now is talk with her hands on her hips.

sigh.

She's about to get a "big girl" bed.   Which is really just a toddler bed... she's still in her crib.  I like her there.   She can't get out.  She sleeps.   And naps.

But, it's also becoming very difficult to lift her into it for me and my growing belly.

She was sick last weekend ... lots of snot.   Actually didn't sleep for several nights because she couldn't breath well.   Finally took her in when she was complaining of her ear hurting.   Lots of tears.  Turns out her ears were too full of wax for the nurse practioner to see her ear drum.

So, they tried to flush them out. 

Should I mention this wasn't our normal pediatrician - who I have known for 8 years, through 4 kids, 3 surgeries, objects up the nose, rashes, earaches, flus, and stomach bugs.  

Anywho, these nurses were nice.  It was nothing against them.

But I lost it.

Maggie was sobbing and begging them to stop.  

They kept going ... and no wax was coming out. 

She was screaming, "It's hurts!  My ear hurts!   Please mommy stop!" 

 

I was imagining myself grabbing her, and Charlie who was observing the whole mess, and running out of the office.  But I didn't want to act crazy.

 

So, I tried to say, "Let me just take her to the ENT"

And the tears started flowing.

I've never cried like that at the dr. office.

I was sobbing (pregnant, sleep deprived, and feeling crazy).

 

I finally got them to stop (they gave up).

Never did get the wax out.

I was waiting to pay when our pediatrician's nurse walked around the corner and saw us. 

She grabbed me and pulled me into a room.

Got to see our doctor.

She calmed Maggie and I both down.

Whew. 

She confirmed that I was not crazy.

Maggie got a sucker.

All was better.

 

Anyway, she's feeling much better now.  We go back in a week to try and clean out her ears.

When she doesn't have an ear infection... so hopefully it won't be painful this time.

eeesh.

 

I'm writing this so I will remember.

Parenting is hard

And "staying at home" is hard.

 But I wouldn't trade it for anything.

Hard to imagine that #5 will be here in May. 

Can't wait to meet him/her.

God is so good.

IT's hard to always keep my focus on what a blessing it is.   I know children are a blessing.  I know 5 children are blessings.  I am so tired.  Sooooooo tired.   And sometimes I just don't feel well.

But it isn't forever.  And soon they will all be at school : ( 

And soon they won't be wearing fairy costumes and asking for pigtails.

Or asking me to play ANOTHER game with them.

Just have to keep focusing my eyes on Christ, and remembering what a gift these children are. And how blessed I am to be their mom.  And how blessed I am to have Colin.