There are a few benefits of having an actual job away from home. Vacation days, holidays, and sick days. Right now I just want to have a sick day. I want to mope on the couch in my pj’s while watching some sappy chick flick. I want to crawl into bed and take a long, peaceful nap. I want to veg out with no worries. All of which are NOT happening. Out of nowhere Shenzie came down with a cold. While I was lucky enough to fight off the last two colds and a stomach virus that plagued our house, my luck has run out. How is it that Shenzie is up and running around, laughing and playing while I feel like death. Horrible sleep added to sinus pressure makes for a VERY grumpy, tired Mama. Add to that one sick child and one crazy child and you’ve got yourself the beginnings of Mama Meltdown. Calgon take me awayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

After reading tons of positive reviews about how awesome the Neti Pot is I decided to give it a try. After our very unsuccessful trip to the park (two toddler meltdowns because we had to get off the swings) we hit up Whole Foods. After talking with the Holistic Chick I decided to give the old Neti a try. Now, the thought of salt water running in and out of my nose really grosses me out. And tasting the salt, beyond ick. I was pleasantly (only a little pleasant though) surprised to find that if you do it right you don’t taste the salt at all. Get the wrong angle though, and boy howdy…the icky salt water fills your mouth. Blech! So I followed the directions and low and behold it actually works! While my sinus headache is not completely gone it has decreased and I do feel much clearer in my nose. I will continue to flush, flush, flush, away all of the icky from my head today and hopefully be feeling better for tomorrow and the madness it will surely bring.

For Shenzie we are doing the humidifier combined with a new product I found. PediaCare Gentle Vapors. Super simple, you plug it into the wall and stick a vapor unit into it. Per the box ‘Non-medicated aromatic vapors provide soothing comfort when your child feels under the weather’. It contains eucalyptus, camphor, lavender and chamomile. It smells great and I noticed myself clearing up just from being in there for a bit. I think I may have to get another for our room. It is very inexpensive ($8.00) and comes with 5 vapor packs (refills available). And although this totally sounds like a paid post I really just thought the product was great and wanted to pass along the info. =)