The Best Medicine

So far, the six weeks of 2010 have felt like one big, long ear infection. 

I am so sick of ear infections, antibiotics, doctor visits, long nights with a screaming baby, and sitting in the rocking chair all. day. long.

We're five days into our current course of antibiotics, and Max is still running a fever at least part of every day, and his lungs creak and rattle when he breathes.  I keep hoping it will go away, but expect that we will be back to the doctor soon. I think we're paying someone's salary at my pediatrician's office once copay at a time.  Doing our part to stimulate the economy and all that.

But today was a good day anyway.

I finally got that haircut.  Turns out I do have a pair of eyes hiding under all my bad hair.

My good friend sent me a surprise box of chocolate covered strawberries and cherries in the mail today for Valentine's Day.  I love getting mail.  Getting a box full of fancy chocolates is one of the best surprises ever.

And yesterday my husband came home with a Massage Envy giftcard for me, and he had already set the appointment for this afternoon.  Bless him.

So this afternoon, after a haircut, massage and significant amounts of chocolate, I finally started to feel like a person again instead of just a tired mommy.

And you know what?  It feels good. 

(And now, I just need to figure out how to swing another massage without suffering through six weeks of ear infections...)