Makin' It Monday

A mom's best friend during the winter season

Today's "Makin' it Monday" is all about just makin' it through the day. Do you ever feel like the 24-hour day seems to triple in length? An hour can seem like four...a minute an eternity. This is how I feel when my little ones get sick and I my focus shifts to just "make it through the day".

The weather during the winter time here in Texas is nice. I like it because it actually has a touch of winter and the temperatures are in the low 30's upper 20's in the morning and rise to the 40's/50's during the day. Generally we are able to keep everyone pretty healthy, other than the occasional cold during the "flu" season.

No, we don't get flu shots - the times we have had one, we've all been sicker than we've ever been before! So we just keep the vaporizor running in the living room during the day when we're home and the kids take baths in the "Vapobath" by Joshnson & Johnson. It's more of a proactive measure than anything else. It's worked the past couple of years anyways!

The problem.....Jayden.....He's too little still to really do much with, so he is now under the weather. We're just trying to "make it through the day". I did a little online research and he's got the classic symptoms for croup. It sounds scary, but it's actually not that bad. It sounds horrible when he coughs, but other than that and havign to sleep in the bouncer, he's okay - no fever, no puking, and no loss of appetite.

So right now he's in his bouncer next to me with the vaporizor running to halp him breathe a little better, and has Vick's baby rub on his feet with socks on. He's also catching up on his sleep. Sunday night he slept only in 20 minute intervals, so it was a LONG day yesterday. I was literally focused on "just making it through the day". There's a bunch of improvement already, as he's not coughing as much and he slept pretty good last night....

Let's just focus on one day at a time...."baby steps"..... and lots of mommy love....