2k20 - WOW!

Despite starting 2020 with the most amazing experience of fireworks + music on a gorgeous beach in Aruba...we came home in the following days/weeks and I gathered January 2020 started off a bit nutty...it was crazy with work, family life {L getting off of her ADHD meds due to a  HUGE increased expense in the monthly rate of her prescription}, Jeremy's extensive work travels and just a feeling opposite of the zen - balanced type of life I usually craft.

So...I declared February 1st the new "new year" and gathered some dear friends (some whom also had a crummy January) and we spent a beautiful morning enjoying foot massages together, followed by a visit to Starbucks together.

The highlight of February was mid-month, cashing in on my Christmas gift from Jeremy with an AMAZING concert by The Lumineers...alongside some dear friends. It was a beautiful, fun + memorable night. One of the best nights so far in 2020.

Quickly February became tarnished after S had the stomach flu on Monday {nothing worse than seeing your child vomit and unable to help them}, followed by Mommy getting it on Friday (while Jeremy was away for nearly 8 days straight)...and then L came home from school the day prior with stomach pains. As I waited {impatiently} for the stomach flu to run it's course through L...it actually turned out to be a severe urinary tract infection which her Dr was concerned was a severe kidney infection and giving strict orders for a check within 48 hours, or else we were heading to the hospital to be admitted.

Let me just pause to recite our TWO hour visit to the pediatrician that Monday: I'm mid-way through a long solo-parent journey, S is acting out and quite needy climbing all over me...L is off her ADHD meds and stubbornly refusing to give a urine sample while experiencing a 103 temp and a laundry list of symptoms. We try and try...over and over...in the bathroom. Dr is extremely concerned and will be using a catheter to get a sample if L won't pee in the "hat" in the toilet, or a cup or anything! First, we swab for the flu - negative, then we rule out strep. Next up is a cath... and I literally didn't think I was strong enough to hold her down - either emotionally or physically. Thank heavens...I offered her $100 CASH and daddy offered her a pass code to a special technology {over the phone}...and it did the trick, just 10 minutes shy of the office closing. Turns out the urine was "horrific" according to the Dr...and two different antibiotics later and about 48 hours on the dot - she was doing MUCH better! 

Three days later...Mommy became sick, again {my guess is it was from the 2 hours spent in the public bathroom of a Dr office in the aforementioned story}... and on Saturday evening at a med-check I was confirmed with influenza A. I cannot recall a time that I had been that sick and I spent days in bed through early March.

So...the first 60 days of 2020 were unique to say the least...