March 16, 2022 - Wednesday

 


I just want to take a minute to appreciate my Clementine for a minute. This girl is SO impressive to me. She LOVES learning new things. She is fearless about going out and trying, trying, trying until she succeeds. She goes outside to roller-skate every chance that she gets, and every time she falls down (which is nearly once a minute) she GETS BACK UP. Time after time. Bruise after bruise. Scrape after scrape. She just keeps getting up and trying again. I'm so proud of her. I didn't have any of that drive in me growing up and I still don't have much. I hate to say I'm a quitter, but....I'm a quitter. If things are hard, I usually stop doing them. The end. But not this girl and I love that about her. 

I felt so terrible last night and today. Fever, chills, body aches, and COUGHING SO MUCH. But it's not just coughing, because when you've had four kids come out of your body you can't just have violent coughing fits and that be it. Nope. I also get to pee myself *just a little bit* every time I cough too hard. I even coughed so hard that it triggered a gag reflex, which was a treat. Today has been 👎. Ben actually left work early so I could go to the doctor. I ran over to the urgent care and it was not helpful. They prescribed me something for my cough, but it isn't helpful so far. I will say that I had no fever today and no chills since like 2pm. Praying so hard that I'll be doing way better tomorrow! 

Love her little bubble dance here! Bubbles bring so much joy to my kids. :)





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