one week later

Poor Kyle. No Birthday Week for him this year.  It's kind of rough when our house is feeling so melancholy.  Mom and Katy left on Friday and I haven't left the house since.  Ok not really--I went to a doctor appt. that afternoon, and yesterday we went to lunch with Alan and Nieman.  And really, we're fine.  I probably make it sound worse than it actually is.  Hopefully, the blood test results will come back and they'll call me and tell me I don't have to come in again.  They keep checking my blood to see if my pregnancy hormone levels are down to zero.  It's just a pain to keep going back in. I want the whole thing to be over.

Kyle's 28th birthday is tomorrow.  Kelsie offered to babysit Ruby, so we're going to do dinner and a movie using gift certificates Kyle got for his birthday.

Things that are making me happy:

• The results of retail therapy, courtesy of my mom--jeans and a couple shirts, lots and lots of food from Costco, Ruby's new Ikea chair that I'm going to cover, and her new Magnadoodle that we all love to play with.

• Thoughtful gifts from friends and family that let me know they're thinking of me, like a box of Sweet Tooth Fairy cupcakes from Nancy and awesome nail polish from Ashley (which I'm wearing right now).

• The huge stack of library books next to my bed.  Yesterday I read 500 pages of Game of Thrones  (finally, I've been wanting to read it forever!) and it's great to take my mind off things.

• Cadbury Mini-Eggs.

• Ruby's tricks. She is getting funnier every day and really brightens things up around here.

• The Thanksgiving Point pass my mom got for me and Christy. You know where we'll be every Tuesday and Thursday for the next year.

• Kyle.  Sometimes when he's asleep he looks like a movie star. A movie star who is helpful and sweet and extremely thoughtful.

• I'll miss Downton Abbey, but at least The Walking Dead is on tonight.

Right now I hear Ruby giggling wildly while Kyle gives her a bath. Things like that make me smile.