One for the books

After today, I know I can get through anything on my own here.

I went to bed not feeling well and when I woke up I felt even worse. Both babies were up at 6am this morning and an hour later Tyler vomited all over his rocker sleeper.  I tried to make it through the day. But I finally had to cave and get something for my stomach. My daughter seemed to be more high strung than usual. Very defiant, a lot of hitting me, and telling me "No" and simply ignoring me. It's so hard for me to deal with her like this. 
I packed up two crying babies into the truck and went a block to the gas station. A block a way felt like ten miles with how bad my stomach hurt. I grabbed the cheapest bottle of pepto knock off I could find. I hate that gas station mark ups are almost 50% higher than your grocery stores. It took about a half of bottle before I finally started to feel slightly better. Right about then Ava threw up on my throw rug in the living room. Tyler was screaming because this happened during his feeding. I had to put him and his bottle down for a few minutes to help Ava. 

After all that happened I knew I had to suck it up and really go to the store. I finished feeding Tyler, got Ava dressed and headed out the door. I made a list this time. Today we had nothing for our tummy's, nothing to clean the floor with. I ran out of dish soap the night before, used the last garbage bag, and didn't have enough formula to get us through the night without tapping in to my diaper bag cans.

my son is on liquid alimentum for his allergic colitis. To make travelling out of the house easier I use the 8oz cans instead of trying to warm a cold bottle, and trying to keep that bottle cold before he needs it. Just open a can, dump it in the bottle and done. 

I had already used one can this morning because I was too sick to wait for the bottle warmer, and holding my 14lb baby was too much weight on my tummy. I fell asleep too before putting the left overs in the fridge and wasted 2oz of formula. Which is not a lot, I know. But at the price we pay for the ready feed stuff, it actually is a lot. So rather than tapping into the last 4 cans I had left I knew I had to go get formula anyway. Also used the last size 1 diaper Tyler had left as we were getting ready to leave. It was necessary to leave.

It went better than expected. Tyler saved his crying until we were almost out of the store. Ava spotted a mini baby doll, and after 30 seconds of playing with it (I usually sneak the toy back out of the cart before check out) it was naked, and we owned it. Luckily it was only a $3 baby.

We now are stocked up on stomach and indidgestion aids & Carpet cleaner