The past month has been a series of sicknesses and canceled plans in our house and there were times when it felt really challenging.
The full abbreviated story: My daughter got a really bad head cold that interrupted all of our sleep, then her head cold turned into an ear infection (very triggering for me because of my early childhood illness and corresponding awful earaches) and had to go on antibiotics, then my husband got sick, then my daughter got sick with Coxackievirus, then I got my period, then I got sick, then I got a call from school that my daughter tripped and bonked her tooth/gum so we took an emergency visit to the dentist for x-rays. (She’s totally okay!) In the middle of that we postponed lots of joyful plans, skipped a lot of school, and in many ways life essentially got put on hold.
In the midst of In the midst of sickness and parenting exhaustion I had all the feels:
Terror, worry, joy, bliss, acceptance, resistance, panic, frustration, disappointment and acceptance again.
Whenever we go through extended periods of challenge it’s easy to start to wonder, Will it ever end?
The following reminders have been incredibly helpful for me, and perhaps they’ll help you, too…
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