Christina and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Weekend

Ok...so maybe this weekend wasn't entirely as bad as my title portrays. Maybe I'm being a little dramatic considering the things that bothered me this weekend are small in the grand scheme of things. None the less...I didn't enjoy my weekend and here is why.

It started Thursday night. My poor daughter had some shots, one of which was the flu shot. Everything was going fine until Friday morning when she woke up with a fever of almost 102 degrees! Now, I know that a fever after shots is completely normal, but I felt horrible because I had to go to work and leave her with a friend who had never watched her before. So...the whole time at work I felt like a horrible mother for leaving my child when she didn't feel good as well as a horrible friend for leaving her with a cranky child. (I am still so thankful to the friend who was amazing and kept telling me things were fine throughout the day. Love you!)

So as Friday progressed, I had made plans to go visit a friend in the hospital who had just had a baby. I went to the flower shop and put together a beautiful bouquet of flowers (which has inspired me to do arrangement of the month I think.) I was so excited to bring them to her. I met my husband at home, fed the baby, dropped her off at my parents and we were off! Now, those of you who may know me, know that when I want to get someplace, I don't exactly take my time. Not that I'm the worlds fastest driver, but I at least do the speed limit. HOWEVER, I was not driving and my husband insisted on talking during the whole car ride, either to me or on the phone, which lead him to drive 5 miles an hour UNDER the speed limit. I just kept looking at the speedometer and sighing. I think he finally went the speed limit for the last 5 minutes of the trip. (The speed was of course blamed on the flowers because he says he didn't want to spill the water.) Anyways, we finally got there and had a very nice visit. Afterwards we had a nice dinner at the Bistro in West Chester. We went home, expecting to be home for 20 minutes before we had to go get the baby. That 20 minutes turned into and hour because I fell asleep at 7:30pm, so I then felt horrible that I had taken up my parents night and spent no time with my baby.

So I woke up on Saturday hoping to have a productive day. All I can say about Saturday is that my child was MISERABLE!!! She screamed all day long. I tried rocking...I tried tylenol...I tried the swing....I tried playing...I tried feeding....I think I tried it all and nothing would satisfy her. Poor thing felt horrible and I couldn't do anything for her. We were supposed to have a family day out on our new boat and that didn't happen. The only good thing that came out of Saturday is that my parents brought over a chair they had fixed up and I made a little desk area in my family room that looks very nice now. I realized I should have taken a before and after picture, but of course...I didn't.

On to Sunday.....We woke up and went to church without any problems. Church ran late (no surprise) so we found ourselves trying to get out so we could possibly have our boating trip since we missed it on Saturday, but go figure we had to go to Cabela's first. Now, I just have to say that I hate Cabela's. I do not enjoy shopping to begin with let alone shopping in the worlds biggest outdoor store looking at fishing supplies for several hours. It's just not mycup of tea, which I kept telling my husband but for some reason he just wasn't listening. Somehow, I got dragged in there. I was told we would only be there for an hour and then we would go boating. (I should have known better) On top of being there for almost 3 hours, trying to entertain a 6 month old, they didn't have a life vest for my daughter so we just towed the boat for nothing because again, we would not be able to make the boat trip. I was so frustrated, hungry and just plain grumpy by that point.

We finally got home, only for me to turn around and go back out to the grocery store so I could make a meal for my friend with the new baby and have lunch for the week.

Needless to say this weekend didn't go as planned and....I'm tired.