Preoccupied and exhausted to be honest. We’ve been having sleeping issues with Joshua. He’s having issues with the benadryl we give him to help him sleep when he’s having a bad time with his eczema. We hadn’t been giving it to him and he was having a bad period of itching so I gave him some for a few days. He’s been going 90 mph with his hair on fire and staying awake until 3am till he collapses and falls asleep. It’s a damned good thing he’s being homeschooled or it would be hell to get him off to school after nights like that. After thinking about it last night we decided to take him off of it and see what happens. Something has to change.. I’m getting the crap beaten out of me. lol Bashed my nose, he poked me in the eye accidentally last night while on his tear, and for some reason he’s decided I make a hell of a jungle gym at 1am. lol
His skin is almost healed except for one small patch on his elbow. Between using pine tar soap and his being older and being able to request having creme put on his irritated patches he’s doing damned good. He’s not one giant weeping sore now. lol
I’m exhausted but with Richard’s work schedule and the bezerker 6 1/2 year old and his fits lately someone has to be awake and do the normal crap that has to be done. Someone has to make sure this ship is run on time, bills get paid, food gets bought and cooked, and the dishes get done. Guess you could say I’m the captain trying to make sure the ship doesn’t go down. lol
Blogging will be last on my list until things get back to our usual “normal”… whatever the hell that is. 
August 31st, 2006 at 1:24 pm
I have a daughter with extremely dry skin and the best luck we have had is to use Eucerin cream (not the lotion) Cream is thick and works well. If skin has cracked and hurts because of open wound, use a bunch of Neosporin each night. Good luck.