sick

It's been a very long week. Last Saturday night while Rachel was taking a bath she asked me for medicine. She hadn't been sick, so I didn't see any need to give her medicine, but she must've felt the sickness coming on, because she woke up in the middle of the night, sick. This started several days of fever, a hacking cough, and fear of the flu (it wasn't, according to the doctor). Her fever went away and I thought she was better, but then her cough got even worse. She missed school (and school picture day!) and several other activities last week. The nights were long, as she was up coughing an awful lot. A very long week.

Thursday night we went to Grandma's house. Slowly over the course of the weekend her cough got better. And Daddy got up with her so I could sleep. It was heaven.

Friday my husband and I spent the day out while Rachel stayed at Grandma's house, also in heaven. It was a fun day, browsing around IKEA and helping my husband shop for a new sleeping bag at REI. My favorite part of the day was a stop at Starbucks--I hadn't been in months and months, and it was fantastic.

Now we're back home and last night Rachel slept almost the whole night without coughing. She only woke up once, at 5:30, which was so much better than she's been doing. I'll gladly take that over last week's sleep.

Hopefully this week will be better, and hopefully I'll have something more exciting to write about sometime later in the week.