Long Lost Sleep

What a night!! Yesterday, Paige had a fever for most of the day (I noticed it in the early afternoon after she took an abnormally early nap). Tylenol won't even touch the fever so I have had to alternate it with Motrin in order to get it to stay down around 100. So I knew that I would be needing to get up once or twice in the night to check her temperature and give her medicine so that it didn't get out of control.

At 3:20 Lexi started to fuss because she was squished against the rails of her crib. I went in and adjusted her and then took Paige's temperature. It was 102.9. I had woken up about an hour and a half later than I had wanted to give her medicine so I hurry and gave her some. At 3:45, I went and checked it again and it was 103.2. At 4:20, I gave her some Tylenol (I had given her Motrin earlier) and her temperature was starting to break. So, I figured that I could go back to bed and everything would be fine since she couldn't have any more medicine until 8:30. Just as I was drifting off to sleep, my phone rang. It was 4:30 in the morning!!

At first I was nervous because my 3 year old niece is being treated for pneumonia and so I thought that something might be wrong. The caller ID said "Private" so I worried that it could be my sister calling from the hospital or something. I answered it and no one said anything on the other line. I hung up a little irritated. The phone immediately rang again, same "Private" number on the caller ID. This time when I answered it, they whispered "hi". I asked who was on the phone and they didn't say anything. So, I hung up. By now, I am getting a little freaked out. The phone immediately rings a third time with the same "Private" number, but this time I make Joseph answer it. The person doesn't say anything. Joseph hung up and thankfully they didn't call back.

By this time, I was a little freaked out and the house seemed to creak more than normal so I asked Joseph to just check the house out and make sure no one was in it. He did and then I started to drift off to sleep again.

At 5:00 Lexi started crying. I went in and checked her. She hadn't pee'd through and she didn't have a fever. I picked her up and loved on her for a minute and then put her back to bed. She started to cry but by this time I was so tired and there wasn't anything wrong with her that I just shut her door and went back to bed. Thankfully, she cried for less than a minute.

So now as I am climbing back into bed ONCE again, I am thinking that the kids will sleep in and so I will be able to get up a little later than normal. I quickly fell asleep.

At 7:00 sharp, my phone rings. There is a number on the caller ID this time, but when I answer it, there are two people in the background talking but not talking on the phone. It was like they had accidentally hit talk (it was a cell phone number) and didn't know they called anyone. It made me think that if the "talk" button got hit without dialing a number, then it would call the last number called. Well, I don't have any calls from that phone number on my caller ID so the only thing that I can think is that they were the ones calling my house at 4:30. When they accidentally called at 7:00, they didn't block it. So, I am debating whether or not to call it back and ask them why they were calling my house so early in the morning! However, they would probably just deny it.

I wish that I could take a nap with the girls today but we have out of town company coming to stay the night. I wasn't very productive yesterday so I will be in a mad dash to get the house and guest room ready. On top of that, we had dinner plans at the Macaroni Grill (it was only costing us babysitting) with our company (he is the executive director of Sun Valley Adaptive Sports, which Joseph serves on the board of directors for) and other injured vets. Now, it doesn't look like I will be able to go unless I can get Paige's fever more under control. For the most part, she acts fine, she just has a raging fever.

So today is kind of a bummer and disappointment. Oh well, I would rather be with my daughter and keep an eye out for her fever than eat at one of my favorite restaurants.