Asking others for help...
I am not the type of person that asks for much help, ever. It doesn't matter what it is, or how hard or difficult it will be...I would rather find a way to do it myself if at all possible.
However, as I have recently experienced personally, there is at least one area of which a single mom of three must be willing to accept or request assistance. What is it you say?
Hospital stays.
I just recently had my youngest, who is 18 months, stay overnight in the Hospital. She had been sick for 2 days, not able to keep anything down, not even Pedialyte. They prescribed a medicine that was to stop her from getting sick, of which did not help. That was day 1. The next morning I called the doc to let them know that it was not working. They advised me to increase the dosage & it should help. Well, that didn't help either.
It was Saturday evening, of which we were just starting a sleep-over birthday party for my oldest who had just recently turned 8, when Alyssa awoke from her nap with a temp. of 103. I had to take her in to the emergency room, enough is enough. But what to do with my son & his overly excited bunch of friends who had just shown up for the party. As well as my other daughter, who was just waiting to get in on all the fun of her big brothers birthday bash?
Luckily, both my mom & my sister were both here and willing to help. If they had not been here, who knows what I would have had to go through that evening? The baby definitely had to go to the hospital. Yet on the other hand, as any mom knows, it is never easy seeing the disappointment in a child's eyes when you have to take away or delay a very anxiously awaited event.
Everything worked out just fine this go around. Brenden got to have his sleep-over, as my sister stayed to play hostess. Myself & Alyssa stayed overnight at the hospital so she could be hooked up to an IV to replenish fluids.
So even if I like to think that I can do it all...I am finding out that there are just some things that 1 person cannot do alone. And that's okay.
However, as I have recently experienced personally, there is at least one area of which a single mom of three must be willing to accept or request assistance. What is it you say?
Hospital stays.
I just recently had my youngest, who is 18 months, stay overnight in the Hospital. She had been sick for 2 days, not able to keep anything down, not even Pedialyte. They prescribed a medicine that was to stop her from getting sick, of which did not help. That was day 1. The next morning I called the doc to let them know that it was not working. They advised me to increase the dosage & it should help. Well, that didn't help either.
It was Saturday evening, of which we were just starting a sleep-over birthday party for my oldest who had just recently turned 8, when Alyssa awoke from her nap with a temp. of 103. I had to take her in to the emergency room, enough is enough. But what to do with my son & his overly excited bunch of friends who had just shown up for the party. As well as my other daughter, who was just waiting to get in on all the fun of her big brothers birthday bash?
Luckily, both my mom & my sister were both here and willing to help. If they had not been here, who knows what I would have had to go through that evening? The baby definitely had to go to the hospital. Yet on the other hand, as any mom knows, it is never easy seeing the disappointment in a child's eyes when you have to take away or delay a very anxiously awaited event.
Everything worked out just fine this go around. Brenden got to have his sleep-over, as my sister stayed to play hostess. Myself & Alyssa stayed overnight at the hospital so she could be hooked up to an IV to replenish fluids.
So even if I like to think that I can do it all...I am finding out that there are just some things that 1 person cannot do alone. And that's okay.
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