Last Sunday afternoon I was carrying Harper, walking, and I fell...her head, or more like the side of her face, hit and bounced off the tile floor in our entry way...
She was screaming, I was screaming, she was bleeding from her mouth, I could see bruises and bumps and it scared us bad...so I called Vicky, her and Phil were here within 3 minutes...she called the clinic ER in town for us, Joel told them what happened and they told us to bring her over.
Poor baby, she was so sad, so was I. Phil and Vicky stayed with Hannah and away we went...well, only a minute down the street...
The nurses checked her and observed her and didn't even have to call in the on call doctor.
She is still swollen in the cheek but it's getting better and her bruises are too. But it all didn't end there...it was a true crappy mommyhood week...
Monday night Harper got a fever. That lasted til Wednesday. So her, Hannah and I did not leave the house those three days. On Thursday the carpets were being cleaned at our house so Wednesday night was super stressful trying to get the living room, girl's room and hallway completely cleaned out, we were supposed to do the other two bedrooms two but just couldn't...
Thursday the girls and I waited around all morning in the empty living room for the carpet guy. When he finally came at 2, about the time Joel arrived home, I was on the verge of a meltdown, Harper was in the throes of a meltdown and Hannah just wanted to go outside...
So we headed to Great Falls because we'd heard the pumpkin spice lattes were back at starbucks! And the girls needed a nap and even though it's stressful taking them places it was less stressful than staying in our mess of a house when we couldn't be on the carpet.
The hardest part of being a parent is being a parent...wow, some days are so dang hard. And some weeks turn in to one big long battle. To top it all off the last two nights Harper has been waking up at 3:30am and crying for an hour...teething? Sleep regression? Stress over furniture being moved for the carpet to be cleaned?...We have no clue! And this morning I dumped a full cup of hot coffee all over myself, ha! I'm laughing because it's that or cry!
When they say "yea" in the cutest voices my heart melts. When they walk up to me and give me a random hug or kiss my heart melts. I love seeing them learn new things and grow and their laughter is my favorite sound...and I'm oh so thankful for them...truly...but my goodness I could use a break!
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