Mother's Day

Sydney could not wait to give me my mother's day presents!  It started off with breakfast in bed.  I knew it was coming since 5 minutes before it arrived, she ran upstairs and said, "guess what, we have breakfast in bed for you cuz that's what  my teachers told me to do", LOL!  Jason made eggs and Sydney did the rest.  She put some fruit on my plate and picked out apple and cinnamon oatmeal. When Jason carried the plate in, he told me that he felt sick, but not to worry because he didn't touch the eggs.  That kind of changed my mood for the day and put me a little on edge because it had been a REALLY rough week and I was just tired of everyone being sick and was SO looking forward to my day of relaxation.  So this meant Jason AND Lizzy were sick. He went downstairs with Lizzy and Sydney stayed while I opened my presents.  Jason had actually Sydney and a sick Lizzy to the mall to pick out my gifts which I appreciated because it means a lot to me that Sydney actually picked out my gifts...I'm sure Lizzy just watched!

Sydney picked out some sunglasses for me which couldn't have been better timing since mine broke just the day before.  Of course, they had little diamonds on the side, which is how I know FOR SURE that Sydney picked them out. They also bought me a Glee CD which I kind of suspected was coming.  The day before, Sydney said, "I bought you something that you watch on TV and it's NOT Dancing With the Stars." So funny!  So, the kid's not so great with secrets, but oh well!  I also got some special lotions and scrubs for my feet since they are always so dry and Sydney actually massaged them...how sweet!  They also cleaned out my entire car the day before which was GREATLY appreciated...it needed it!  Apparently Lizzy slept through the whole thing!

When I came downstairs, Jason went to bed and slept the entire day while I cleaned and did laundry.  I can't stand a mess and wasn't going to be happy until it was spotless.  As I said, I wasn't in the best mood as it just wasn't what I wanted to do the whole day, but it IS my job as a mother, and so I did it anyway (with a little chip on my shoulder).  Looking back, I realized that I shouldn't have had the attitude and should have gone with the flow a little better...it's life and people get sick...but I never said I deal with sickness very well! It's one of my (many) downfalls.

But alas, the day got better!  My mom came over and gave me a present that I really needed...a gift certificate to a salon to get my hair cut and highlighted and a mani and pedi.  Oh...and a membership to Costco...yayyyyy!  Now I can go to Sam's AND Costco and won't have to send my dad and friends to by animal crackers, hummus, and squeezy applesauce!!  We gave her a photo blanket which she really seemed to like!

Finally, Jason came around and started to feel a little better.  My mom, Sydney and I were going to Champps for dinner and Jason decided he would bring Lizzy and drive separately just in case.  We made it through the meal, said goodbye to my mom and got the kids ready for bed.  After they were finally down, Jason brought up the computer and showed me a picture of what he ordered me for mother's day.  He was going to take me to the store, but that didn't happen since he didn't feel well.  He bought me a brand new patio set which turned my mood around even more.  I have been wanting a nice new set, so I was very happy and excited, not to mention appreciative since it was totally unexpected.  I love surprises.  At that point in the day, I thought I had received everything I was going to get (and I was completely satified), but this was just icing on the cake.

So, all in all, it turned out to be a good day.  I just wish Lizzy wasn't sick...it just breaks my heart.  She literally had diarhea all day for 3 and half days and had the WORST diaper rash...so sad!   She even ended up staying home with Jason the next day!

In Your Dreams!

So, this morning Sydney came running into my room and told me she had a good dream.  I asked her what it was about and she said that she had a sleepover at our house with some friends from school.  I don't even know how she knows about sleepovers, she certainly has never had any of her friends sleep over before.  Anyway, I asked her who came over and she said, "Andrew" very quietly in an embarrassed voice.  I was like PLEASE tell me there were other kids.  Thankfully, Samantha, Chloe, and Brooklyn were in the dream too!  I was a little worried that my four year old was dreaming about having a boy sleep over.  I know it was just a dream, but here's to praying she stops dreaming about boys for many many many many many years!!

It Was the Best of Times...It Was the Worst of Times

This past week has certainly been quite the roller coaster ride with many ups and downs.

It all started with the Royal Wedding on Friday.  To be quite honest, I wasn't all that interested in all of the hype!  But Sydney...OBSESSED!  She loved that Kate was now a princess.  And anytime a princess is inolved...Sydney is all about it.  Every show that came on about the wedding, she just had to watch.  At school, they took a few kids who were interested into the library to watch it all happen.  Sydney was one of the interested ones.  That's all she talked about after school that day.  Usually, she tells me she didn't do anything...typical kid!  When my People magazine came in the mail with Princess Kate and Prince William on the cover, she literally ran into the house and started reading it.  She kept saying, "this is real life, mom." They even kissed." Poor kid wants to be a princess...she'll always be our little princess though!

On Sunday morning, we had Jake's birthday party at the Troy Aquatics Center.  Lizzy was so excited to go swimming; she just LOVES it.  I knew she would have a blast.  We just had one problem.  Sydney was acting weird and it turned out that she had a fever.  But she wanted to go so bad.  And since it wasn't over 100, we took her anyway and let her swim.  I didn't tell anyone and just tried to keep her away from other people.  They both had fun, but it was hard for me to relax just knowing that she wasn't feeling well.  But it was still fun, nonetheless.

Sunday night...wasn't so great!  There was some strange activity going on in front of our house.  There were like five cars and one car was blocking the others and wouldn't let anyone move.  It was really strange, and after 20 minutes, it kind of freaked me out because I couldn't think of a reason for all of this to be going on at 10pm on a Sunday night.  Finally, Jason called the police and they ended up staying for almost an hour.  I was going crazy trying to figure out what was going on and of course a ton of people were gathering outside.  As it turned out, there were some high school kids playing water wars (with water guns) and it got a little out of hand.  I'm glad that it wasn't anything major, but it's scary to see weird things like that.  How were we supposed to know they were water guns?  We weren't taking any chances!  And to top it all off, Sydney still had a fever (well duh, we are the geniuses thatlet her go swimming) and ended up staying home with Jason that day.

Next night...not so great either!  Around 10:30 pm, Lizzy threw up! OMG...we all know I hate that and of course I went screaming for Jason.  She threw up one more time after that but I stayed up the whole darn night in anticipation; my worst nightmare!  AND, Jason HAD to do something important for work the next day, so I HAD to stay home with her.  I was literally on pins and needles the whole day.  I wouldn't let Lizzy or Sydney (just in case) eat anything the entire day.  Well, I let Sydney have a yogurt...and that's it!  Lizzy was so pissed.  I would give her tiny bits of juice a little at a time, and she would say, "don't give me a little, make it big".   And then she would throw her cup at me when it was only a little.  The next morning, she woke up earlier than ever and came into my room before my alarm went off for work and said, "I'm hungry, give me breakfast."  I starved the poor kid.  I'm a bad parent sometimes, but she didn't throw up again!

The next night came a little good news for the world.  An alert came across the tv that President Obama had to make a major announcement.  At first Jason thought it had to do with the crazy high gas prices, but I thought there was NO WAY he would make an emergency announcement about that.  Just as I suspected, Osama Bin Laden had been captured and killed.  I'm still a little uneasy that there will be some retaliation, but this is a postive thing for the U.S.  So, I guess this will be one of the "good" parts of this blog...but still...I'm a little worried.

We somehow managed to make it through the rest of the week without anymore issues, although I didn't feel very well on Thursday.  I'll spare the details, but I went to work anyway, and somehow managed to push through.  Finally, Friday came...thank goodness. I went on a girls night out with Shauna and Jenn to Benihana (where they cook in front of you).  It was fun and needed.  I wasn't really sick, but I still kind of felt off, but I didn't let it bother me.  I had fun and enjoyed a night out without the kids.

On Saturday, Lizzy woke up with diareha...bad!  I ended up putting a diaper on her.  I had to change her 4 times before Jason even woke up.  I felt so bad for her.  Poor Jason had to deal with it, because I spent the day in Troy with my Mom, her sisters, and my cousins.  They asked that I didn't bring the kids so we could have an "adult" day with shopping and lunch.  I had a good time; my mom bought me another charm for my bracelet and I bought a couple things, but I kept thinking about Lizzy.  So, I headed home after the mall instead of going back to my mom's.  Afterall, it had been six hours!  She was still very miserable and getting worse.  She had the WORST rash and was just in tears.  She wouldn't let us touch her or change her.  She just kept crying.  Finally, I just threw her in the bath and let her soak.  I hope she is better by tomorrow.  This has been an awful year in terms of sicknesses.  Tomorrow is Mother's Day, so hopefully she will be better so that I can enjoy the day and enter it into the "best time" category instead of the "worst time".

So, this was definitely an interesting week.  It's too bad tomorrow is already Sunday because I already know I can use another day!  Wouldn't it be nice if I only worked four days a week?  A girl can wish, right?

P.S. It was such a crazy week...I didn't even take pictures!