Sick w/Baby = Difficult
Ezra, -v-, and I are still sick. We are still feeling the daycare sickness. The good thing is Ezra is still smiling and doesn’t have a fever. His temperature is at 98.1 degrees. He has a cold like -v- and I. The bad thing is that having a cold makes being a parent a little more difficult.
When you are sick and a parent, you can no longer just lay on the couch with the blanket over your head and sleep and stare into oblivion. You can no longer call into work and say that you are sick and thus removing any responsibility of the day allowing you to eat chicken noodle soup and watch videos while you blow your nose and feel sorry for yourself. You can no longer sleep in or sleep early in an effort to get better.
When you are sick and a parent, you still need to feed the baby, talk with the baby, play with the baby, burp the baby, change diapers of the baby, and show the baby that life is good. And when the baby is sick, you still need to suck the snot from the baby’s nose, check the baby’s temperature, make sure the baby is comfortable even if you are sick.
It’s hard. It is another lesson of how much parents deserve respect because I wanted to do nothing but cover my head in a blanket today and sleep everything away, but I could not.