Long week

Thursday came and we both sighed a big breath of relief.  We had made it.  The past week/week and a half had been brutal.  It started with just a little head cold.  Gaetan wasn't feeling the greatest, but it wasn't anything that was going to be that big of a problem.  Then Lucy got it... and that was a problem.  The poor girl was so sick.  She probably had a fever for a day and a half and she was always burning up.  She was so tired but her head was so congested that if you even got her past 45 degrees she would wake up.  So for that week/week and a half she was sleeping about 45 minutes at a time (if we were lucky).  And, for her being our child that is pretty independent she only wanted to be held.  She didn't want to play, she didn't want anything but than to be held and cuddled.  At first it was really nice... but then it was a little harder to get things done one handed... and she got pretty heavy!  So her lack of sleep meant my lack of sleep.

The only way we could get her to sleep

When that happens it usually is manageable because Gaetan can help out.  But a classmates Grandma is very ill and so she was going to be away from school for a week and in that week she would've missed a few homework assignments and two tests... which would essentially make her take all those classes over again.  So the Profs, which was extremely nice, smashed the schedule together and made everything happen in the time that she would be there.  Which meant double homework assignments... So Gaetan was EXTRA busy with school, so there wasn't much relief going on at home.  Which, is totally fine, because his job is to be brilliant (which he is doing) but I was used to having the help.  For the week we were pretty excited if we got in bed before 2 in the morning... only to start it all over again somewhere in the 6-7 range.  And, really that wouldn't be so terrible if Lucy slept the entire time... ;)

I think what made it the hardest was that there was no down time together.  Usually, we get to just talk and be together for a little bit but we didn't get that time at all.  It was either stay up later (which we were pretty much falling asleep anyways) or try to get what little rest we could.  And, of course, we were both sick during all of this.

I asked him if this was how it was going to be for the rest of the semester and he said no.  I would be OK with it if I knew it was coming... but it was very sudden.  If I could've psyched myself up for it and known what I was getting into then I think it would've been easier.  But God was definitely there giving me little nuggets of strength here and there right when I needed it.

I feel like we accomplished something huge this week! haha  We took a pretty lazy Saturday.  Lucy slept til 9:30 (after she was up a lot during the night) and then took a 3 hr nap.  It was fabulous.  :)  We are ready to start this next week... probably as rested as we are ever going to be.

JVG