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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Doozy of a night
We are all sick so my days are blurring together, but we have had some crazy nights and there is one in particular that I must talk about. To set the story up I have to explain that a neighborhood cat has been coming in our house via the doggy door. It's happened twice that we know of. Our crazy night began around 12:30am. I was sleeping and was awakened by our screeching dogs in the other room. I knew instantly that the cat had come inside and was terrorizing our dogs. Cory jumped out of bed and chased the cat out of the house. We settled back into bed and then about a half hour later Ryan came into our room upset because she was coughing and had a fever. I got up and got her something to drink and gave her some Motrin for her fever. She got into our bed and we fell back asleep. As I laid my head on the pillow I smelled the foul smell of poop and realized that Maddie was having bowel problems (still not sure if she ate something bad or if the cat scared the poop out of her). There was poop stuck to her butt and she had gotten it on my pillow and Cory's pillow. I had to strip the pillowcases off and put the dogs in the laundry room. I went back to bed and fell asleep for about 10 minutes but woke up when I heard sippy cups falling in the pantry. I knew that Reese must be awake looking for something to drink. She does this often--goes to the pantry, gets a sippy cup, opens the fridge, and brings the entire jug of juice or milk into our room for us to pour her a drink. When I heard the cups falling I sprang out of bed and went into the kitchen to get her something to drink. We poured some soy milk in a cup and she drank away but said she wanted a snack. I gave her a banana to eat. She said she wanted to sleep in our bed and I was so tired and defeated that I just agreed. We settled into bed and it was about 3am at this point. I fell asleep almost instantly but Ryder woke me up at 3:30 to breastfeed. I was crosseyed. I fed him, burped him, changed his diaper, and put him back to sleep. I think it was almost 4:30 at this point. I seriously felt like I had been up all night long. Don't worry, it gets better. When I finally got out of bed at 8:30am I went into the laundry room to wash the poopy pillowcases and found that the dogs had pooped ALL over the laundry room. It was doggy diarrhea everywhere. I almost started crying. Cory helped me clean things up but that was the last straw for me. Since then I've been threatening that I'm going to find a home for our dogs. I feel like I can't take care of 2 dogs in addition to 3 kids. I know it's bad right now because the kids are sick and we haven't left the house in days except to go to the Dr., but that night was such a doozy for me.
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I would have absolutely LOST it Lisa! Sounds like you handled it with all of the grace you had in you :) Hope you guys feel better soon!
I have to go back to bed after reading this story! I think I ran straight over and grabbed Muffin and Maddie before you tried to sell them on Craig's List!! :-)
Google is making me CRAZY. Every time I try to post, they say I don't have an account and I just through ten minutes of hoops to set up another one and my post still doesn't go through. So, from now on, I'm 'anonymous' and I'm putting my name at the bottom!
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