Life Stuff
In Kae’s recent post, she talked about having an incredibly busy week. Her husband pointed out “it’s all just regular life stuff.” And it IS! But why does all the life stuff have to happen at the same time? Couldn’t we spread things out a little more??? This week has been crazy for me. Work, school, concerts, a blogger meetup, Christmas prep… yes, it’s all life stuff, and mostly things I WANT to do. It’s just a lot, all at once. On Wednesday I had an “elfing” day- my usual day off from work, and I spent it doing Christmas prep. I printed out some photos to go in Christmas cards (I only put a photo in cards for relatives who haven’t seen the kids all year), bought wrapping paper, went shopping with my son (he bought some Christmas presents). got a new strand of lights for the tree to replace a broken one (hmm, I wonder how that happened, FOXY???), got some packages ready to mail, and then at night we had my daughter’s winter concert. These are all things I love, but it took ALL DAY. Thank goodness Wednesday is $5 sushi day at Sprouts, because I definitely wasn’t cooking. Then, there’s Charlotte. This situation is definitely adding to the stress. Yesterday morning I put her food down (she lives in our bedroom now) and then left to do all the usual morning things to get ready for school/work. Well- my husband left the bedroom door open, Foxy got in, and ate Charlotte’s food WHICH HAD HER THYROID MEDS IN IT. I was freaking out. One dose of thyroid meds won’t hurt him… will it? WILL IT??? For the first time I thought… maybe this is too much for us. Sadly, Charlotte is not improving. We stopped giving her the steroids because she hasn’t been eating for the last couple days and we thought maybe it was due to the steroids? (This is how, by the way, Foxy ate her food- she just let it sit there). The fact that she isn’t eating also means she hasn’t had her meds, because they go in her food. She’s drinking water though and using the litter box. I’m still not ready for the end yet. She still purrs when I pet her, and I’ve started taking her for little walks outside at night (obviously with me carrying her). She seems to enjoy it! I haven’t entirely given up. This morning she ate a couple bites. She’s not in any pain- if she were, it would be a different story. My son is home, so he can check on her while I’m at work. So… we’re hanging in there. As my daughter said, “Charlotte is a fighter.” In less depressing news (let’s end on a high note, for God’s sake) tomorrow is our State Championship football game. The band will travel to the game, as they did last year. Unfortunately I’ll have to miss it because of work, but I’ll follow along as best I can. Everyone is excited about it! GO BULLS! Do you feel like you have a lot of life stuff right now? Top photo by Maria Oswalt on Unsplash