Ground Hog Day

Since I am trying to write daily, just for one month I am acutely aware of the reason I do not write daily.  I'm living Ground Hog day. It's basically the same over and over. 

I wanted to do this for me.  I thought if I could look at my life day by day, I would understand more about myself and what I'm filling my life with.  It turns out it's mostly laundry.  Boring, huh? 

Emily and Sarah went back to school, and I gave Abby a shower this morning.  She absolutely hates the shower.  I don't know why, and I don't know how to make it any better for her.  We've struggled with this for most of her life.  She has never liked it.  We do it because we have to, but none of us look forward to it. 

As usual, she started screaming her head off the minute she realized what was up.  My only goal was to not get horribly frustrated with her.  I prayed, then stuffed my ears with toilet paper and calmly gave her a shower.   It turns out that without being able to hear her quite so loudly, I stayed very calm.  I didn't speak to her or try to talk her out of a fit, I just let her go and did what I needed to do.  Without me to trying to reason with a howler monkey (aka: Abby), she just stopped.  She gave up the fight in the middle of the shower.  Who knew?

I changed the dressing on the Broviac which looked remarkably good, and then she and I went on to have an uneventful day. 

She is complaining of hip pain lately.  I guess she needs an x-ray, but I don't want to deal with an ortho doctor right now.  Kids with CP often have hip problems.  We have been blessed to not have major issues there, but that doesn't mean it won't happen.  If she keeps complaining, I'll have to do something.  Obviously, I'm hoping she doesn't keep complaining. 

That's pretty much my ground hog day.  Tomorrow I will have more laundry to do.  Abby will be taken care of.  The girls will go to school, and like every other day I will do all I can to trust God in a situation that makes no sense to me.