July hit me like a ton of bricks and I could not get back up. We went from having Stephen home the last four months to never seeing him because of residency starting. I thought I was prepared but it is worse than I imagined it would be. It was also the hottest month we have experienced yet, including our hot summers in Atlanta. It was one of those months that tests you day after day and more days than not I failed in a big way. Half way into August I am still trying to recover but we are getting there. Everett stopped sleeping well for about five weeks. He wouldn't nap during the day and would wake up randomly in the middle of the night just screaming after crying himself to sleep on average two to three hours every night. It was really hard on him having Stephen suddenly gone all of the time. Any time I would leave him for a nap or bedtime he would just scream like I was abandoning him.
Trying to focus on some good from the month. Besides the 70+ hour work weeks Stephen is putting in he is loving residency. I don't know that he has ever been more exhausted but I am so proud of him and just know he is such an amazing doctor. That hospital is lucky to have him.
July meant that sunflower season is here. This is the first year I have truly been obsessed with sunflowers. Everett and I drove to a sunflower farm one morning and about died from heat stroke. The ice cream after helped a little. And the sunflowers were beautiful.
We've been to story time a few times but the last time we went Everett hugged this little girl and they both fell over and I don't know what the mom thought but she ran over and screamed at Everett not to hit her kid. Everyone was staring at us and I think on our side that Everett wasn't trying to harm that horrible women's child. But I was already on a crying streak from not having my child sleep at all that I didn't last through all of it. We left early and I'm a little scared to go back.
I think we set the pool up once the whole month and only played with the water table a couple times. It was just too hot to even play in the shade.
Stephen and I joined the hospitals wellness center gym. It has childcare and it honestly has saved my life. Everett hated being left alone with the other kids at first but now as long as I hand him over to someone he is just fine and for the most part really has a good time. The gym is a little expensive even with Stephens employee discount but it is so much cheaper than the therapy I would need without it.
We are still trying to figure out this new schedule of ours. But every week seems to get a little better if not stay the same. I am hoping we are past the worst of it. Or at least just used to the worst of it now and can find ways to work around it. Stephens first year is by far the hardest and busiest. But we can do it!
