Sick saga continues

Luckily, my nausea was short lived. I think God realizes that when the rest of the house is sick Momma can't be sick too!

Chris actually got worse as the day went on! Lamont apparently has the same thing. Now my mission is to keep Miss Savannah from getting any of it.

Today I plan to hydrate my son and husband, quarantine my daughter somehow, Oh and figure out how to get the red jello puke stain out of the cream carpet! And I forgot somewhere in there, take a nap and go to work tonight!

Sick, sick sick

Apologies for my abscence yesterday as it was a day after working all night, which equals mini periods of broken up sleep after working all night and being awake for 24 hrs.

Today begins after I have been up all night nauseated with abdominal pain. Chris woke up with the same this morning. Today will be my first real day as a parent of more than one child, since my older is quite self-sufficient, but today will actually need his Momma (secretly happy!)

Today will remind me of one of the photos in my Mom's photo album where she is laid up on the couch with the flu as my brother and I climb all over her and as my Dad was taking pictures.

So, bring on the gatorage, ginger-ale, and jello and please, please, please do not let my baby girl get sick!

"Sometimes its all about survival..."

Today is a going in to work tonight day!

Savannah and I's week is often defined by going to work days and coming off of work days (which are quite different). The first being defined by attempts to get preemptive sleep, the later by trying to get periods of necessary sleep for sanity.
This is a huge part of our inability to have a real schedule. I sleep when Savannah sleeps, so if she gets tired after 1.5 hrs awake so be it, I welcome the early nap. If she decides to nap long, I don't even realize it, cause hello I'm asleep too!

My pediatrician put it very appropriately as she was giving us the speech about the importance of good sleep and routine..."Sometimes its all about survival!"

So today is about survival, we both slept from 8-10am, not an ideal nap time. But she was up at 6 and made it for 2 hrs awake. Im sure we will sleep again somewhere around 1230/1.

I have to take comfort in the fact that she is growing and healthy. She will one day appreciate the bonding time we have had together. I say this as I'm forcing tummy time on her and she has scooted forward off the bobby and has face planted with her feet in the air! I need to add that she is snorting at me so I will pick her up. I would have missed this if I decided to have a normal life :)

Virgin

SOOOO, inspired by quite a few of my friends, I have decided to start a blog. I figure it will be interesting for my kids to look at one day and can help keep a lot of my family/friends in the loop of my life, while not limited to the text content of a status update.
Please ignore my grammatical errors, since language arts was not my strong suite. I am not the one to help you write a paper, but if you need a calculus problem solved or an organ dissected, I'm your girl.
My life is currently an experiment in sleep deprived insanity! When surprised with the knowledge of the impending addition to our family last Dec. ( the youngest at the time was ten!), I decided to continue working 12 hour night shifts and keep Savannah at home with me during the day. I came to this decision for two reasons, to avoid the cost of child care as well as the germs/antibiotics that may come along with it. I failed to adequately consider the severe lack of sleep and resulting insanity that would result.
A week in the life of the Shea household looks something like this these days:

• Chris is up an at um at 5AM to catch a 6AM bus to get downtown to middle school, since the one near our house would only teach him gang signs and how to do drugs (Im exaggerating a little, but not by much)
• Lamont works a regular 9-5, which is luckily very flexible about the 9 and 5 part of that.
• I work 7p-7a 3 nights a week, to include every other Fri/Sat/Sun so that I can split up days during the week since sleep does not happen while alone with the sweet precious angel.
• Savannah, hmmm I would have to say that she is allergic to schedules and has violent evil reactions to them. :) We are currently very proud of the fact that she has slept in her crib for the last 3 nights.
  

Somewhere, in the midst of all that I serve on several committees at work, Chris plays basketball and Tae Kwon Do, Lamont gets his video game fix and sometimes some dinner gets actually cooked at home.
So welcome to the ride, please keep your arms inside the vehicle at all times!