It’s funny how even when your entire life is turned upside down by the unexpected, you can still get totally pissed off and frustrated with things that really don’t make much of a difference in the grand scheme of things. I guess people going through big things can still get upset over little things.

To ease your mind, LeahBug is basically where she was yesterday, except with added glow worm blanket, and she spent most of today squirming around her isolette because she is most comfy when swaddled, and she can’t be swaddled because of the bili lights. She’s now 3 lbs 11 oz. Go Leah, go! They want to add some powdered formula to her breast milk to help her grow faster, just until she reaches term. We’re not thrilled about it, but at least it’s temporary – and she needs to grow!

So. We had a nice visit from friends earlier today, and then from sister and cousins this evening. Sister drove us home, and we went into the kitchen to put stuff away. I went to put something in our pantry cubby… only to find it empty! “Uh, what happened to our food?” The front desk worker happened to be in the kitchen at the time, and informed us that all of our food had been put in the “Help Yourself” area. Um… what?

When we arrived here, there was already food in the cubby that corresponded with our room number, so we were told to put our food in the next cupboard over because that room was vacant. Well, as of today the room isn’t vacant anymore. And instead of setting aside our stuffed-full cubby of food for maybe 12 hours just to see if anybody claimed it, they just gave it all away. Thankfully we were able to retrieve a small number of items that had not yet been claimed, but for the most part our pantry cubby has been emptied out. The lady who emptied the cupboard was nice enough to go hunting in the trash for my bottle of lactase enzymes, which would take days to replace and had been discarded, so that was good. And as I am more than a little bit of a hoarder, we still have some extra stuff in the room. It just sucks because I JUST went shopping, and I have no idea when I’ll be able to go again. It’s not like there’s a Trader Joe’s down the street here. Plus Mandy needs food throughout the day because she is pumping breast milk, which uses up extra calories… and my giant Costco container of garlic powder (which I use in everything I can eat/drink right now to ward off colds) is living in somebody else’s cupboard. Ah well. I hope they make good use of it.

It’ll be fine. In the grand scheme of things it really doesn’t matter much. It could have been handled differently, but it was an honest mistake on their part – and it was nothing we can’t replace without a little effort, and at least I got my pills back. And at least it wasn’t our refrigerated food, which would have been way more expensive to replace. Maybe in a few weeks we’ll laugh about this. But right now it just sucks.

Mamas are both exhausted tonight, so it’s a short update!

LeahBug had a relatively calm day today. Mandy stayed with her for most of the day while I went back to the house to take care of some things and retrieve a pile of squash and berries from the garden/farm. Later on, I came back and we had our kangaroo time. Leah also had visits from her Uncle Ralph and Grandma Sharon today.

Leah’s day was mostly about sleep today. She had her nasal cannula in overnight last night to help her remember to breathe, but it was out by this morning, though she still had a few episodes throughout the day. She slept when we visited, she slept when she held her – apparently she even slept through a couple of diaper changes. But she did gain a few ounces! This morning she weighed in at 3 lbs 7 oz! Good girl!

Guess who is free of her bili lights? No more tanning booth! At least for the time being, Leah is no longer under the bili lights, which means no more Mr. Horrible Awful Mask. She seems to enjoy her new-found freedom.

Today we got our longest stretch of kangaroo time to date, and LeahBug didn’t forget to breathe once. She has had a few episodes today, but not while we were holding her! She is now up to 4mL of milk (less than a teaspoon) per hour on continuous feed [through her g-tube]. They’ll keep increasing it gradually, and eventually will transition to feeding in intervals.

Also… sooooomebody kicked her little vial of milk out of its stand with her tiny tiny feet and spilled it all over her little blanket. Sooooomebody did. I’ll leave it at that.