And I love this quote: "Everyone should have kids. They're the greatest joy in the world. But they're also terrorists. You'll realize this as soon as they're born and they start using sleep deprivation to break you." – Ray Romano
I'm reminded of this because our sleeping-through-the-night baby is now a wake-up-at-4 a.m. baby. Poor kid is so snotty from a cold she caught at school (in addition the diarrhea & diaper rash she's still dealing with), she woke up choking on snot.
Last night she was so congested, I tried to booger suck her and nothing would come out. Seriously, I sucked so hard, I thought I was going to a. pass out and b. suck her brain right out of her nose. Fi hates the snot sucker to begin with, but she hates it even more when she's being suctioned and not getting any relief afterward. So I jumped in the car and went to Walmart. Surely they would be open at 3:30 a.m. right? Wrong. (BTW assholes managing the Walmart website, you should probably update the info every once in awhile so some half-asleep mom with a sick baby at home doesn't drive through the front of your store when she arrives, after she specifically checked your website to make sure they were a 24/7 store.)
I ended up driving to 5 stores in a 5-mile radius so I could pick up saline spray and a humidifier, got home, sprayed Fi's nose, sucked out her boogers & she promptly fell back asleep.
Ahh, if you told me a year ago I would be up at 4 a.m. driving around to pharmacies and literally sucking boogers out of my kids nose, I would have laughed in your face. Who's laughing now?
Ahhh welcome to the wonderful world of parenting. I swear that you technically don't get your Parenting Badge until you make the 3am-drive-to-the-drugstore-for-medicine trip. I don't consider someone a "real" parent until they have that experience.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, I checked out that snot sucker and that thing looks like no joke. I just hope the filter holds up and your not inhaling Fi's boogers.