Coughs, sniffles, and sneezes.......

Oh these beautiful days of summer....Sun is shinning, breeze is blowing, sun tea brewing on the back deck, flowers blooming, butterflies circling the yard, and the smell of bbq grilling is in the air....Don't you just love summertime??? I know I do!!! It's been so nice to be home to experience the smells of freshly cut grass and all of the above. But for us, we must add coughs, sniffles, and sneezes to the list. What terrible colds we are fighting around here. I am still coughing and congested and Little Bug is beside himself with tying to cough up all the junk that's inside of him. How I hate to watch him struggle with this cold after he's been through so much already. I now know more than ever how moms feel when their babies are sick with the sniffles. We hurt each time we have to use that silly blue bulb and suction out their nose. We hurt each time we rock them and pat their little back and feel all that congestion on the inside. We cancel appointments so that we don't have to go out and we put plans on hold so that we can lay low and get better. I am realizing that it was one thing to be in the hospital with a critically ill baby and clearly another to be at home with a fragile baby who has the common cold. In the first experience we relied on doctors and nurses and the second we rely on the sacrfiices and love of dad and mom. It is such a pleasure being a mom!!! Even with the coughs, sniffles and sneezes barking down our door, I wouldn't trade this job for anything in the world.

Back to wiping noses and comforting cries!!!!
Lovebug Hugs,
Lori