So, the night of Abby's birthday we have our family over for dinner and everything goes really good...until that night. I wake up at 1130pm(yes, we actually go to bed by ten these days) and I was pretty sure I was dying. From 1130-830am I am throwing up along with some other things. I literally was running on an hour of sleep by the time Dave was getting up to go to work. Poor Dave has to call in sick to work so he can take care of Abby. This was Wednesday and keep in mind her party was coming up on Saturday. We go to the doctor and she determines that I have food poisoning, which we were actually happy for since there is an awesome stomach bug going around that is highly contagious. She gives me a shot(which was the most painful thing in my life, and I have had an epidural and a c-section, this thing was a monster)which knocks me out so I can finally get some sleep. If you know anything about food poisoning you know that it last 72 hours, which brings us to Friday and let us not forget that I have to go grocery shopping and get the house clean for her party. On top of feeling like I have been hit by a semi at least a half a dozen times, I couldn't play with Abby. I literally had no strength left in me. It was probably the worst part of the whole thing. Finally Friday at 930pm I looked at Dave and told him that I went five whole minutes without feeling sick! I was still extremely exhausted Saturday, but her party was at a park and even though we had family come back to the house afterwards, I really didn't care that the house looked bad. Here are a couple of pictures from her party...
Her party was perfect! I am so glad I decided to have it in a park, I can't imagine having all that energy in my house!!! We donated her gifts to the children's hospital, not in the " Mommy Dearest" kind of way. The lady was almost in tears when she saw how many we had. I am so grateful to everyone who helped us do this, I know we helped out a lot of kids. It was a year ago Saturday that we were bringing our 10 day old precious baby girl to that same hospital because she had MRSA and she was so sick they had to put her on an IV and we were told that they were going to have to do surgery on her to get it all out. I am pretty sure that was one of the darkest times of my life. Now I look at her and see this happy, healthy toddler and I can't believe how far we have come! God is good and we are so blessed that he choose us to be her parents!
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