Worst Month Ever?

I know we're only halfway through, but I'm ready to label January 2014 as the worst month of J-Man's and my time together.

Is that a little dramatic?  Perhaps.  But that doesn't make it less true.

Yeah, January, I'm lookin' at you

Also, I should clarify, this isn't to say that it's the worst our relationship has been.  Granted, throw enough stress inducers in the pot and any marriage will hit a bump or two, but that isn't really it.  It's just, um, everything?

There's the obvious one.  We have a newborn.  And he cries.  A lot.  Similarly to PDG, it isn't the kind of cry that requires any diagnosis like reflux or colic or what have you.  Just general fussiness until he figures out what life out of the womb is all about.  So, yeah, there's that.  It makes us feel a little nutty sometimes......

Then there's work.  My fears about returning so soon.  I go back next week at only 7 weeks - a far cry from the 5 months I had with PDG (though only 12 of those were expected if you remember).  And there's J-Man's work.  Where they're doing restructuring and being generally jerkish to him.  Which he would never want me to elaborate on so I won't.  But I think we can agree that when work feels miserable, it's easy for everything else to be miserable, no?

Plus, PDG threw up at daycare last week.  We thought it was just one of those random things that happens to little boys who eat as much as he does.  But, again, worst month ever.  Seems he had some kind of bug.  Bad enough that he didn't even want to play at the park with his grandma that afternoon.  Bad enough that he'd keep throwing up all evening.  And then bad enough that he'd pass it along to his exhausted and already dehydrated mama, who would lovingly share it with her annoyed-with-work husband.  Fingers crossed the baby doesn't get some form too.  I'm hoping the incessant nursing at least is passing along my antibodies to protect him.

I seem to recall there being something else craptastic these past 15 days, but you're getting the point, right?

On the upside (did you think I'd be negative ALL post?) a few great things have happened.  J-Man's mom is in town from Washington state.  She's been super helpful - especially during the stomach madness.

And, fans could argue even better, the Seahawks won.  We donned our tattoos and duct tape and jerseys, bibs, and hats to cheer them on.  Go Hawks.  Ca-Caw