Happy Anniversary!

After 6 weeks of Lent and a very long Holy Week, followed by a couple days with friends, Al and I celebrated our 4th wedding anniversary on Wednesday with an emphasis on the vow of 'in sickness' and in health. I spent most of the day on the couch with a box of Kleenex, but managed to make it to the computer to look for an e-card to send to Al before he got home from church. He returned and announced that he too was feeling 'blah'. Eden entertained herself on the floor until she decided to start sneezing, get a runny nose & tug on her ear.

So, after all was said and done, and no cards or gifts or "happy anniversary" words had been passed, we sat on the couch together in the dark and talked until we were ready to fall asleep....then Eden woke up. I spent the next 3 hours rocking a sick baby while Al slept alone.

Thursday night was no better. Eden is officially experiencing her first cold/ear infection, so Al and I are also experiencing our first bout of being parents with a screaming child. (She wasn't this mad or in pain when she had RSV). I went to town (30 miles round trip) to get some Pedicare nightime (I was hoping sleep would surround her), but it just made her more agitated and she screeched in pain while I sat on the couch with her fighting tears of new mommy-hood frustration. All I kept thinking was, 'who can I call? Mom's in Mexico, Meegan's a medical moron, and Marie really likes her sleep, considering she has two tots of her own.' So, after 3 hours, I added tylenol to her coctail and she fell fast asleep until morning.

BUT ALAS...For the sake of celebrating something, Al bought me a BEAUTIFUL boquet of flowers and instead we celebrated the first time we met, 6 years ago today.

To all those beautiful days and nights to come......