Busy bees

Today has become somewhat unexpectedly full.

I woke up early to take Char baby to a new daycare. Work was worky. We got our PL4s and they are brutes. It takes two people to safely hang them on the over stage electrics. Fun!! At lunch time I officially became a Tupperware consultant!!! My website is my2.tupperware.com/mariachunn. I will be hosting a party this Sunday! For those of you in the Rogue Valley, doors will open at my home at 3 pm. Be there or be Tupperware-less. I am working on adding an online component for those out of towners.

The most challenging part of my day though occurred when I picked Char up to go home. My darling man graciously picked her up from daycare as the provider had an appointment before I got off work. They went to our friend's house in Ashland and chilled til I could come get her. However, for whatever reason, she was very tired and ended up falling asleep in his car while he grabbed himself a drive thru dinner. She stayed asleep at the house, in my friend's guest room, until right before I got there. She was okay hanging out for a bit, but as soon as we got in the car, she began crying. She cried all the way home. I had planned to go to Fred Meyer after a pit stop for a diaper change and coupons, but that went out the window as soon as we got inside. She was inconsolable. Just a mess. She wanted to be held, walked around, put down; she wanted to see her toys downstairs, but cried when she picked any up or I tried to give her one. We went upstairs. She wanted her music boxes, but only if I held her while they played. She wanted her blankie and her bottle, even in the bathtub, which did calm her down a bit. She had a stuffy, runny nose, but wouldn't let me clean it. She had a little bit of diaper rash, but has definitely had worse, though she didn't want me to put anything on that either. She didn't really want me touching her at all (I noticed her skin was a little dry), but she wanted to curl up in my lap. I finally got some lotion on her body and some vaseline with a little lavendar oil on her for the rash. I brought a warm bottle upstairs, and all of a sudden she just relaxed. Got her into her pajamas with no problem, and rubbed frankincense, lemon, and lavendar oil in coconut oil on her feet. She was out in about 5 minutes once she settled into her crib. She just woke up, about 2 hours later, but I just went in and rubbed her back a little bit, and she seems to have gone back to sleep. Oi!!!!

This is the first time since she was an infant that I have truly been at a loss as to how to calm her. NOTHING seemed to be helping. Bottle and blankie always work in the short term, but I wish I could figure out the actual problem. I hoping that it was just being worn out, from playing and from her first entire day being with new/"strange" people (kids).

So here I am at the end of my day. I'm sore. I still need to continue  my plank challenge and take my vitamins. I did manage to make a new to me dinner tonight that I will also have for at least one lunch this week. Super simple: Half box shell pasta, one can sweet corn, one can peas, a little lemon juice, a little olive oil, garlic salt, pepper, parmasean- toss, serve. According to Natalie, she will now consider considering me an adult because I purchased black pepper. Not sure what the rest of the criteria are, but I'm confident she will notify me when I've past my adulthood test. :)