Rough Week

First off, I apologize to my faithful blog followers (all 3 of you, ha) for my lack of postings recently.  It's been a long week at the Baxter house.  It all started Monday night when a stomach bug flew into our house and hit me hard!  Let's just say, I'm not sure of a time when I have ever felt so sick.  I stayed home from work Tuesday and barely made it out of bed.  Shawn was so great though at taking care of me and keeping Emily away.  Unfortunately for us though, Shawn started not feeling well Tuesday afternoon.  Luckily, he didn't get hit nearly as hard as me, but was still not in any shape to take care of a baby.  Thank goodness for my family!  My brother was able to pick Emily up from school Tuesday night and my mom kept her for the night.  The last thing I wanted was for Emily to catch whatever it was we had.  So good news. . .she didn't get the stomach bug.  Bad news. . .she caught a pretty bad cold and is very congested.  My mom was so great and stayed home with her Wednesday hoping that would help her get better.  I think it helped some, but unfortunately since we can't really give her any medicine her cold will just have to run it's course.  I was so excited to pick her up from my parent's house last night as I hadn't really seen her since briefly Monday night.  It was a long night though.  She obviously isn't sleeping well since she's so congested, so I was up for about an hour and a half in the middle of the night, rocking her to sleep.  Let's just say, I eventually put her in her swing to sleep.  I think sitting upright helped her finally be able to get some good sleep.  It's so hard to watch your baby be sick.   You feel so helpless!  So needless to say, it has been a really LONG week.  I'm just counting down to the weekend when we can all get some much needed rest!!