Sleepless in Okinawa (although I really wanted to name this: "When it Raneys, it Pours"....ha)

I have had the worst week of my life (so far at least). As I sit here at 4am, feeding a sick and fussy baby after yet another dose of baby tylenol, and adding another set of wet sheets from Bella's bed to my ever growing laundry pile, all I can do is laugh. Really I just want to curl up in the fetal position and cry myself to sleep , but I guess that isn't an option here. So I have to laugh, because life can be just so ridiculous at the absolute worst time. And it really is hysterical how that all works out.

Leo is going on his third night of a high fever. I am running low on baby tylenol, and energy. I called the advice nurse (because who wants to drive all the way to the ER and wait there all night alone with 2 kids and have them tell me there is nothing they can do but give him more tylenol). They said he is possibly just fighting off a virus, and to only bring him in if he has diarrhea or won't eat. He seems to be doing fine, except at night when I'm ready for bed.

And of course, because life likes to throw a ton of lemons at you at once in the hopes that at least a few smack you right in the head, Bella has decided she isn't potty trained anymore. Or at least just not at night. These past few days she has wet the bed every night. I'm starting to think she is doing it on purpose because this time, after I changed her clothes, she said "sleep in mommy's bed?" and ran to my room. What could I do? I have no more clean sheets to put on her bed. I should just make her sleep in her pee as punishment, but that is just gross.

I have just until the end of this week left until Brian comes home. I am so thankful his deployments are only a few weeks or months at a time. I don't know if I can laugh at myself for much longer than that. But, like I have said before, I would rather take a million more nights like this than a lifetime without my babies. They are worth every sleepless night and every load of laundry. I wouldn't trade this for anything.