My week has filled up nicely, and I’m actually really looking forward to almost every event. The only nervy part is Dekker’s specialist appointment, and really the only nervy part of that is waking him up so early and then trying to make him do the tests. Who knows. Maybe he’ll surprise us all and use his manners and not put up a fight! But we’d sure love to order his glasses that same day before we drive home, so that also would require some cooperation. We’ll see.
Every other scheduled event is visiting with friends and family 🙂 This is the perfect way to fill a week! Today started with me taking the afternoon off from being home, leaving Dekker and Brady to their own devices, and spending the day with my dear friend, Jerilee. Neither of us were super energetic or motivated, so we started with lunch at Boston Pizza. Would you believe she’s never had the garlic twisty bread?!?! Life = changed, I think. We perused through a mall or two before just sitting by the river and visiting for a bit. It was so nice to have some solid girl time. I love my boys, don’t get me wrong!! But we all deserve a break once in a while from our responsibilities and I thoroughly enjoyed mine today.
It wasn’t a total break. Once I brought Jerilee back to her place, I headed to the nearest clinic to get my glucose test done. Gross. For those who don’t know, its a test to check for gestational diabetes. I’m not sure what it would all mean if they found that I had gestational diabetes, but I know that the babies of mothers with it tend to be born huge. No, I didn’t have GD when I was pregnant, that was just for fun I suppose. However, I don’t need anything to be too much bigger than Dekker was, and its just routine to have it done, so I did it. For the test, they gave me a bottle of a carbonated orange pop type of beverage to drink. Its completely jacked with sugar, and burned like crazy, sending me into a wild coughing fit. Then I had to sit in the waiting room for one hour, and then they took my blood. I’ll know soon enough if anything came of it, but I’m not worried at all. The downer was that there were no books, magazines, or papers, and I had to have my cell phone off the entire time. I was counting on my Sudoku app to keep me entertained for that hour! Instead, I stared at a wall. Best hour of my life. Or longest. Either way. When that was finally over, The woman took my blood. She was polite and friendly but super rushed, and I am now bruised and yucky because of it. I know, its not that big of a deal, and its nothing compared to delivering a child itself, but it hurt to lift Dekker after getting home about an hour later. Unfair.
Speaking of Dekker, I barely saw him today and while I didn’t have any intense separation anxiety or anything, I was so happy to see his big smile looking at me through the window as I got out of my car. I love his chubby arms and his shaggy hair and his wet lips and his blue eyes, to name just a few.
Tomorrow is garden day! Shouldn’t take too long to put it in. Its already taken long enough to get to this point!! But my mom is coming out to be part of it and to visit for a bit, so I’m really looking forward to that. I feel like I haven’t spent time with that lady in weeks and weeks!
So tomorrow will be nice. And today was nice. And Wednesday is going to be really good too. And so on.
I’ve missed you too my dear. It will be so good to see you tomorrow. Love you!