the weekend, the flu, the week ahead

You know how they measure your uterus when you go to the doctor at each visit? Well, on Friday, mine measured 35 weeks. But I'm only 32 (actually less-they have my due date as April 19th! WHAT?!?! I have it as April 15th!) So, my doctor looks at my last ultrasound to confirm that my baby is just big and it shows that little Ava measured...little. 28th%. Hmmm. My doctor was confused by the discrepancy so she scheduled another ultrasound for my next appointment. I'm not too worried but I really don't like all the concern over her growth-again!

Then on Saturday, I had a fabulous girlie date with my girl Ursula. We saw "Confessions of a Shopaholic" which was cute and PG. Then we shopped and bought fun stuff for our babies or babies of friends. Threads, the Pottery Barn Kid's clothes store, is going out of business and I was able to buy Ava some red Mary Jane crib shoes and a darling pink floral sun hat for 50% of regular price and then 75% off of that which came to $8.75 for both of them together! I LOVE good deals!

But as I was driving home, I got a text from Jesse telling me that Knox had thrown up but seemed OK, just tired. When I got home, I made dinner for everyone else (a dinner I will NEVER eat again! Sad, because I liked it a lot...) tucked all the boys in, was thankful that Knox seemed fine and went to bed. I woke up at 1am and stayed in the bathroom violently sick until about 5:30am when I woke up Jesse to get Caleb who had just thrown up. I didn't leave my bedroom until about 2pm on Saturday. Jesse took care of the boys who THANKFULLY got a one shot bug and were done! He bought me lots of vitamin water, Gatorade and Powerade and let me sleep. I got the worst of the flu in the family which is odd since I am the one who never gets it. In the 12 years we've been together, I've only gotten the flu three times and I usually recover fast. Which might be why when Jesse snuck out for some dinner on Saturday night after all the boys were in bed, he brought me back veggie egg rolls. Too soon though, babe!

By Sunday, we were all feeling better but didn't go to church to keep our germs to ourselves. I made biscuits for breakfast and we cuddled up to watch TV. Annie was on-the original one! YAY! The boys liked it but mostly because I was so excited about it, I think. I sneezed during the movie and almost fell over from the pain. I thought I had cracked a rib but after some googling found out that I most likely strained the muscles around my rib cage from the pressure of vomiting all night. It still hurts to laugh or cough or sneeze so I'm trying not do any of those things. I'm sad about the laughing part but I just smile really, really big. Anyway, I felt well enough to strip all the beds and wash all the linens, vacuum the house and spray Lysol everywhere. After lunch I was ready for a nap and tried to put Lucas down so I could rest. But Lucas is teething and decided not to sleep so by 5pm I was starting to melt down. I realized I hadn't taken my thyroid medicine for two days which makes me insane. Dinner and bedtime were a blur and Lucas cried in his crib for about 30 minutes so I got him up and we watched the Oscars until Jesse got home at 8pm. He took care of Lucas, got him to bed and by 11:30pm, I was asleep too. Unfortunately, I woke up at 5:30am with a pounding headache (most likely lack of thyroid).

With that crazy weekend behind me (oh, my dishwasher was broken the whole time, too!), I'm looking forward to this new week: Dinner out with friends on Tuesday, my mom coming up, Jesse's aunt coming to visit, a big family dinner on Friday, and Ava's baby shower on Saturday which means lots of PINK PRESENTS! Pink presents are fabulous and I can't wait to see all the precious things my loving friends and family have gotten for her!
So...here's to living through the flu and loving the week ahead. And please, people WASH your hands. You do NOT want this flu!