Cold and prickly

Hunter hasn't been feeling very well since Christmas. He has a cough he can't kick. He isn't sleeping good at night as a result. He's been throwing up A LOT too. (You'd all be so impressed by my laundry skills!) However, I can't decide if the vomiting is due to the same 24-hr flu bug that Eleyna had, but it just hit him harder, or if he isn't adjusting to the changes in his Ketogenic diet.

It is exhausting always trying to be Sherlock Mom.

He is supposed to go to his first day of special ed preschool this Wednesday. I'm really nervous about the whole thing. I hope it is a positive experience for all of us. For now, he is only going to go for an hour, one day a week. If he tolerates it okay then we'll increase from there. I'm excited for him to have some new experiences and meet some new friends.

Hunter and I are both tired today.

Over New Year's weekend we rented a cabin in Timberlakes with Bryson's dad and his sibs. Since the roads to the cabin were super icy, getting up the mountain with the snowmobile trailer took forever. Meanwhile, I've been holding Hunter in my lap since Heber because it's bedtime and he is too tired to sit in his car seat any longer and he's got a full diaper which is soaking through his jeans. There's no where to change him in a car stuffed to the brim with luggage and my arms are about ready to fall off. So while we make slow progress towards our destination both of us are feeling increasingly uncomfy and stressed. (He starts to cry the last little bit.) By the time we arrive, I'm biting people's heads off and am in a generally unpleasant mood.

Then, the whole time we're there I'm WORRYING because I knew he wasn't feeling great when we left and now I'm sure the illness will hit with full force. (Which it didn't, thankfully. But still, the worrying!) Since the whole point of being at a cabin in the winter is to play outside in the snow, I'm inside with Hunter while everyone else is outside. I don't mind this too much though because I brought a book to read. Still, it gets me wondering why I went to all of the trouble in the first place when we could both be doing the same thing at home. Needless to say, two days away from my house with a moderately sick boy was enough to convince me that trips/vacations are just going to have to be different from now on. It makes me sad, but I think the only solution is to have either me or Bry stay home with Hunter while the other person goes on future trips with Eleyna.

Sometimes I guess there just aren't any great solutions.

Did I mention that I hate winter? And that I'm tired today? Bad combo.

Sorry this wasn't a very "warm and fuzzy" post.