All the people rushing in to help me
Apr. 14th, 2013 03:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dancingsingingThis morning, I was feeling so terrible that I had a cup of caffeinated coffee. So I've been feeling awesome all day. (If only I could do that every day and it would still work!) And feeling awesome, I was able to remember all the people who *are* rushing to my aid as if I were a sweet, spunky protagonist in a teen fantasy novel. Since I spend so much time here whining, I thought I'd share about that for some balance! Things people are doing/have done/have offered to help me:
-wild_irises invited me to come stay with her for a weekend so that she could stay up all night with the baby while I slept. (This one kind of blows me away. Like, really?) I haven't been able to take her up on it yet, but just knowing the offer's on the table makes me feel less desperate.
- A woman I met through my daughter's school offered to drive her back and forth to school every day that she doesn't have a babysitting gig, which works out to about three days a week, two hours a day.
- My dad handed me a $500 check to pay for the first while of having a night nurse, even though we can afford it ourselves, because he didn't want money to be an obstacle to getting started. (So far I haven't found anyone to do it, but maybe I will...)
- My sister spent more than half her spring break playing with the baby so I could sleep during the mornings. She even took him once at four or five in the morning, but that didn't work so well. Still, she was willing to!
- Spouse has started taking the bb for five hours Saturday and Sunday mornings while I sleep. (This is part of the results of that head-tearing-off thing I mentioned in my last post.) I feel sort of strange listing him in my "people helping me" list, since he's the kid's parent, too. So "helping" isn't the right category. But it's more than he was doing before and he started doing it because I asked him to, so that counts for something. It's not half of the sleeping hours around here, but on the weekends, I'm getting more sleep than he is.
- My mom came up for a few days when I was most desperate and cleaned the house for me. And she's coming up again tomorrow!
They might not be supernatural beings offering to eviscerate my enemies, but these people are pretty fucking awesome. When I get out of my own misery enough to consider it, I'm boggled that so many people are willing to do so much for me.
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wild_irises invited me to come stay with her for a weekend so that she could stay up all night with the baby while I slept. (This one kind of blows me away. Like, really?) I haven't been able to take her up on it yet, but just knowing the offer's on the table makes me feel less desperate.- A woman I met through my daughter's school offered to drive her back and forth to school every day that she doesn't have a babysitting gig, which works out to about three days a week, two hours a day.
- My dad handed me a $500 check to pay for the first while of having a night nurse, even though we can afford it ourselves, because he didn't want money to be an obstacle to getting started. (So far I haven't found anyone to do it, but maybe I will...)
- My sister spent more than half her spring break playing with the baby so I could sleep during the mornings. She even took him once at four or five in the morning, but that didn't work so well. Still, she was willing to!
- Spouse has started taking the bb for five hours Saturday and Sunday mornings while I sleep. (This is part of the results of that head-tearing-off thing I mentioned in my last post.) I feel sort of strange listing him in my "people helping me" list, since he's the kid's parent, too. So "helping" isn't the right category. But it's more than he was doing before and he started doing it because I asked him to, so that counts for something. It's not half of the sleeping hours around here, but on the weekends, I'm getting more sleep than he is.
- My mom came up for a few days when I was most desperate and cleaned the house for me. And she's coming up again tomorrow!
They might not be supernatural beings offering to eviscerate my enemies, but these people are pretty fucking awesome. When I get out of my own misery enough to consider it, I'm boggled that so many people are willing to do so much for me.
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