Thursday, May 08, 2008

Just what I needed

I woke up this morning feeling very overwhelmed and it didn't get easier! We had a doctor's appointment scheduled for Friday morning at 9 am with a neurologist. At around 11:30 am today another neurologist's office called us to set up an appointment. We were quite confused about what was going on. Turns out, the first doctor wouldn't take our insurance plan, so our pediatrician had contacted another doctor to set us up another appointment. I started to get really frustrated thinking that we weren't going to able to get Luke in to see a doctor tomorrow. As you can imagine, I want this done as soon as possible and will pull out all the stops to make sure that it does. I am not opposed to hurting somebody's feelings at this point!! Anyways, we were able to get an appointment for tomorrow at 10:30 am with a new doctor that takes our insurance. That's the good news. The bad news is that instead of having to wake him up two hours earlier than normal, we now have to wake him up at 4 AM!!!! I must have asked Brian a dozen times if he was sure that was what they said. We cannot let him take a nap before we go to the doctor and we can only feed him once before we go. It's going to be a challenge because Luke decides when he wants to sleep, he takes naps when he is ready. I lay him down when he lets me know that it's time and he goes to sleep. When he doesn't get a nap, it's a bad deal! So bad!! Not to mention what mommy is like at 4 am! All of this added to my feeling that I am overwhelmed.
Around 2 pm today I sat down on the floor with Luke. He had eaten his lunch and I had eaten mine. I had loaded the dishwasher, picked up the house a little bit because we have company coming for the weekend, and finally got ready for some play time with Luke. I didn't feel like it honestly. I wanted to let him play alone whole I sat on the couch and watched reruns of Top Chef. I sat down there thinking that there were a thousand things that I needed to be doing: Laundry, vacuuming, moping. The last thing that I wanted to do was sit and read a book or play with Thomas the Train. I did it anyway because that's what mom's do, right?? The second I sat down, Luke crawled up into my lap, wrapped both of his sweet little arms around my neck and gave a big, wet kiss. It was the most perfect moment I think I have ever had. It was almost as if he knew all of what I was feeling and let me know that it's going to be okay. He sat in my lap for just a few more minutes, which he never does anymore because he is too independent for that, and then he was off. I sat and cried. What else could I do?
I sat there with him until about 20 minutes ago until I put him down for a nap, and I loved every minute of it.

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