Dear Reese,
You are feverish and snotty today. That means no daycare and a day of juggling working from home and cuddling you, but we do okay baby girl. Early in the morning, you nap on me while I’m still in bed and I send Slack messages with your head pinning down my wrist.
Later, you take a two-hour nap in your crib and I use that time with a frenzied efficiency. When you’re awake and I’m working (and that Tylenol has clearly kicked in), you take yourself on a tour of the living room. I check on you to find some paper half-dissolved on the inside of your cheek. Paper, tissues, tags — it’s all like candy to you.
The balance is a bit chaotic. I worry about answering messages fast enough and sending out calendar invites to interview teams while you pull your books off the low coffee table shelves. I bring you to my only meeting, the one I normally lead for my team but had to delegate, and we make it a little over halfway through before I need to go off-camera to give you more grape-flavored medicine and put you down for another nap. There is a messy incident on the changing table while I check your temperature (still feverish).
You are so tired. Rubbing the snot from your face into your eyes. Uffda.
But I love our quiet day together because when I do put down my computer or stop trying to work on my phone, I read to you. We pull board books at random all day and it feels like the first time I have your attention while reading outside of the nightly ritual of Goodnight Moon. Maybe you just want to be in my lap. I want you there too.
Love,
Mama
This picture 🥹🥹🥹 hoping you and Reese get some good sleep tonight and she wakes up feeling better tomorrow!!