19/365

Yesterday was my birthday and I am requesting a do-over.  Can I do that?

Eva and I have been sick with the crud that took Blake out all of last week.  She has it worse than me I think.  She cried all day yesterday.  I couldn’t put her down.  The kids were home from school… it was challenging.  I had to cancel dinner with friends, between her grumpiness and my exhaustion and sore throat it just seemed too much.

By 6:30pm, when I sat on the couch and started getting a little teary, Austin came and sat down and said, “are you sad?”

“A little.”  He asked why, I told him it had been a long day, on top of a long week last week.  That I couldn’t put Eva down to go to the bathroom without her screaming.

“I will watch Eva for a while.”  He said.

Which was so sweet.  But instead I took her up and put her in the tub, where she tried to swim again and made herself so upset by face planting in the water.

Cole peeps in to see if all was ok.  He said, “have you had a good birthday?” which made me smile a little.  I mean he was here, did it look good??

So I said, “well nobody gave me a card…..”

And he was on it.  He made me a card, made all his brothers sign it.  And then 2 more showed up from the other brothers.  Blake seemed a little teary that he forgot.

Andy comes home, and brings some take-out (and to his credit, he sent me flowers).  Cole finished eating and said, “where is your birthday cake?”

Good question.  Good thing DQ is only a couple blocks away.

Andy put the candles on it- looks like I turned 29.  Again.  He also added the palm trees- because I spent most of the day dreaming I was on a beach in Mexico.

He told me that I needed to snap out of my funk.

So we ate cake, and I felt better.

And then he rocked Eva for two hours straight while she cried and cried.

I layed in my bed and watched the bachelor- holy crap.  I haven’t watched that show since the first season or so (when the Firestone dude was on)

I didn’t think Eva would ever stop crying.  And I didn’t think she would stay asleep once she finally did.

But you know what?  She stopped.  And she went to sleep.  And slept all night.

And she just let me vacuum the floor and didn’t cry.

Today is a new day!