Today was a crappy day for this mom! You know, the kind of day that keeps you checking the clock hoping it’s not ticking as slowly as the day feels like it’s moving? We all have them, and being in quarantine I have had more than usual. Today hit me hard though. I could have used a reset button.

The day started with Jack waking up miserable. I know his one year molars are coming in and they are pissing him off. His hands are constantly in his mouth and he just screams when the mood strikes. I have been using essential oils to soothe his gums and they worked well enough this morning to get him back to sleep. Once he woke up though, beast mode was initiated.

As I am trying to get Jack back to sleep, CJ comes running into the room and throws his iPad on my bed. He tells me that the touch screen is broken. When I tell you he thought this was the end of the world, I am not kidding. He legit had tears in his eyes and didn’t quite know what to do with himself. Clearly that is a sign your child has been spending too much time on his tablet. I will work on that. HA. Maybe not.

Once Jack woke, I got up and spent what felt like forever troubleshooting the damn tablet. Nothing worked. We recently had the screen replaced so I am thinking that must have had something to do with it. I can’t even get past the first screen to do anything else, twenty hard resets later. I tried everything suggested that didn’t require me to take the iPad apart. Now I must go back to where it was fixed and see what they can do for me. Luckily his sister had a tablet he could use for his Monday morning google meet.

Now it’s eleven in the morning and I am already feeling like I am ready for the day to end. Jack continued to scream randomly throughout the morning, and sometime midday Ella decided to have, what I will call, episodes. Her eyes were rolling into the back of her head and she was falling over. They didn’t last long but scared the hell out of me.

Dani was here helping and we observed about five in a few hours time. They didn’t last longer than fifteen seconds each and she snapped right back to herself after but I have no idea what is going on. I reached out to her neurologist and am waiting on a call back. Sometimes Ella does weird things when she is tired and can’t control her body. I am hoping this is the case because I have not seen anything like that in a long time. She was already monitored for seizures once and the study came back normal. I don’t even know what one would look like, but I am concerned that’s what it was.

Stress was the common theme of the day. Both littles are currently in bed and I am ready to eat some ice cream cake and binge watch TV with the hubby tonight. I should have known the universe was messing with me. This weekend it snowed. Today it hailed. Who know what tomorrow will bring?

Praying baby girl sleeps well tonight and wakes up refreshed tomorrow, episode free, and that Jack’s damn tooth breaks through so my poor little man isn’t so miserable.