As per usual, the chaos continues here in our household, but we keep on moving! Last night, our day didn’t end until 9:30 pm. Between the kids, the goats, only having one car…it was a completely nonstop day. From 5am to 9pm. The exhaustion was REAL.
All 3 kids are some level of sick. My oldest is mostly fine with a cold, but the other 2 are a bit more pathetic. The baby had a fever yesterday and was miserable. He’s getting his molars in, so that definitely did not help.
Thankfully, he woke up fever free this morning…because he had a doctor appointment that we absolutely couldn’t miss!!
He’s had an eye doctor appointment scheduled for the past 6 months. The wait was absolutely ridiculous, so rescheduling was not an option.
We’re still here in the waiting room, he’s been seen and got his eyes dilated, and now we’re waiting for his eyes to fully dilate before the doctor sees him.
His eyes didn’t dilate well the first time, so another round of drops and waiting. Ugh. I’m so grateful his biggest form of entertainment comes from people watching. One thing this waiting room doesn’t lack is other people!
My husband and I are also battling this same cold. Me, not so much…but my husband is having a hard time. He still has a fracture is his frontal sinus, so ANY kind of congestion or pressure is just brutal.
So, that’s my day. Varying degrees of a sick family, eye doctor appointments, of course… goats!
5 out of 6 baby goats are taking the bottle really well…but one of my baby girls has been having a hard time. We got them Sunday, and while the others drink their bottles in just a few minutes…it takes me a good 30 minutes of wrestling her and convincing her to drink just to get a few ounces in her.
But this morning…she finally figured it out!!! The consistency and my patience with her paid off and, and she drank not only her bottle, but we gave her her brothers bottle too! She was starving, so we were just relieved she drank. Don’t worry, we made her brother another bottle. He didn’t miss out.
She actually I think sees me as her mother, because she kept trying to get under my armpit and look for milk there? So my husband and I worked together to allow her to be under my arm like she wanted, and he helped get the bottle in her mouth. It was just really awesome and satisfying to finally see her drink.
My days have been insanely long lately. Like no matter what I do, the work is never done. And I can’t ever really catch up.
Admittedly, if this baby girl continues to actually drink her bottles without it taking up to an hour…that will help a lot.
I love these babies, and they are helping me feel more…I don’t know. Fulfilled? Productive? Loved?
They really are just big puppies
The work is never ending. It’s round the clock. Between sick kids, husbands, baby goats, laundry, feeding everyone, transporting them…the cycle doesn’t ever end. It just…repeats.
I’m exhausted. And I have canceled the kids therapies every day this week. My husband stayed home today so he can help me with goat care. Good thing, because the 5 day old babies need a bottle now, and here I am at the eye doctor with my human baby.
I’m trying to keep my headspace…good. I’m trying.
We’ve been gone early 3 hours now and this baby is TIRED. but he’s doing great. And honestly…if he needs glasses…it’ll only make him like 200% cuter.
Keep on going. Just…keep on going.
The depression can’t catch you if you run fast enough…right?
