Laughter Dreams Memories

Look who’s come to live at our house….

Yes it’s the Green Eyed Monster. He, or I should say she, came to visit once or twice over the last few weeks but has as of last Thursday has definitely moved in and decided to stay for a while. We had our first friend come to stay over night. The excitement level was high full of fun but then O started seeming to come down with a cold….stuffy nose, cough, slight fever then itchy eyes. Of course I wanted to help the little one feel better which was okay at thestart but then a normally peaceful sleeping Dillon woke up screaming and wouldn’t stop. Bed time came for the girls and O seemed to be getting worse, fever remained level. By this time Dillon has started spitting up badly and Keeva was beginning to feel ‘unloved’ as I tried to comfort a little girl who’s parent where at a concert and tried to calm a screaming, orange colored baby. Then it turned into hard wrenching crying about how I didn’t love her anytime I touched either O or Dillon. Keeva didn’t want me to comfort anybody else. By this stage it was clear O was having an allergic reaction to something….the swelling eyes were kind of a clue. I was getting very concerned as she does have peanut allergies but I knew she she hadn’t gotten near any nuts. None of this mattered to Keeva as two hours after bedtime started she was in the corner in my room curled behind the laundry hamper wailing about how no one loved her, not Maamy, Daddy, the Dogs Nana…..just possibly Gaga (Grandfather) who plays computer games with her. O was doing her best in her state to convince her that she did love her but she had decided she wanted to go home…..couldn’t blame her what with Keevas behaviour…..Keeva couldn’t see this and continued to escalate even more now that O wanted to go home. So, parents were called and the first ’sleepover’ ended. That was the night the monster moved in. Since then I have not been allowed to comfort Dillon, hug him, ssh him. It even gotten to the point where if I pick him up and he smiles at Keeva at the same time she says “look he is trying to make me jealous”……no explaining, comforting, playing special moments seem to help. I can’t wait for this guest to leave. Lets hope she doesn’t decide to stay too long …..