So, I'm back. Kind of.

My head feels like it was hit by a bus. Or that someone punched me in both eyes. Since neither of these things have really happened to me, I cannot be for sure of the pain level. What I do know is that I would give my week off from work back in a second to feel normal again.

Every day is getting better, though. I can open my eyes all the way. (The whites are red, though. Thus staying home still). I've been trying to walk around and "act" somewhat normal. The new issue that comes about around day 4 is a crazy-bad case of motion sickness. Crazy? Yes. Unheard-of? Notsomuch. Since everything I see is pretty distorted, motion sickness is pretty normal.

I spent most of my week sleeping. I figured that if I can't see much, might as well put myself in a codine-induced coma and sleep my pain away. Come Thursday, I was getting pretty tired of this routine. I no longer felt that I needed all of my full doses of pain meds. I cut them in half, added a few Advil to the mix and hoped for the best.

I spent most of Thursday on the couch "listening" to the TV. I tried to keep my eyes open for a bit, but it really made me tired and I'd nap every so often. What I did realize is that the Food Network really has no meaning if you can't *see* it. It's kind of important. That's my thought for the day. ...moving on.

Today (Friday), I am feeling LOTS better. Still having motion sickness but not as bad as the last few days. My view is still distorted, but not as bad. I even tried to do a few "normal" activities. I started a load of laundry, emptied and reloaded the dishwasher and organized the mail. Of course, I had to take a nap afterward.

Tomorrow is my birthday. I was hoping to be up to going out for a celebratory dinner. That is definitely not going to happen. I definitely feel better, but I don't look well enough to go out in public and I have no real appetite (due to aforementioned motionsickness). And let's be honest, I do kind of walk around like I'm drunk. (Last night I bumped into the wall in the hallway. That was cool. )
So, tomorrow I'll be doing what I've been wanting to do all week. Spend time with Trey and Mr. Fab.

That will make everything better, right?

Weekend Review and what is yet to come

What an extremely busy week I have had! Whew!

First off, my apologies for my lack of posts. It was obviously due to the aforementioned busy week. But before I go in to that, let me explain why this is going to be the last post for at least another week.

Tomorrow, I am going to be having surgery on my eyes. I'm not going to show you any graphic pictures or talk about the gory details (you're welcome Randall!), so don't worry. To put it very general, this will be the 3rd (and hopefully the last!) attempt to correct a genetic eye muscle disorder that I've had since birth. It will not have any affect on my sight, it will just attempt to realign some muscle issues.

So, for that reason, uh, seeing might be a bit of an issue this coming week. So, don't expect a bunch of posts. And, no, I won't take a picture of myself when it's done. Frankly, I'm going to hole myself up in my house until they heal enough to go out in public. I mean really, do you honestly think that I'd walk around looking like a crazy? Honestly, I don't know what I'm going to look like, but I am pretty sure that everything will heal up nicely by Thanksgiving. My last surgery was in January of 2004. It was only 5 years ago, but I cannot for the life of me remember my recovery, how long it took and how fast I bounced back. The only thing I remember is that it was hard to drive because it hurt to move my eyes from side to side. I had to resort to moving my entire head around when merging into traffic, for example.

For the days ahead, I took a week off of work, lined up Nanny to work extended and overnight hours and my husband, mom and inlaws will be here to help as well.

Oh, wait! I forgot to mention something... It is also my BIRTHDAY WEEK!!!! Yeah!!!! Won't this all be sooooo fun????? :) Ugh. Even though I'm a year older as each birthday comes and goes, I still LOVE celebrating birthdays. This year will be a doozie. Maybe I'll feel good enough to get out of bed on my birthday! Heck, maybe I'll go crazy and take a shower, I don't know!!! I'll be 31 on Saturday, so maybe with a little prayer, I'll be feeling much better by then.

Back to that busy week I just finished up. Busy week indeed because I was trying to get everything completed at work so that I could actually be gone for a week. I was working crazy hours, coming to work super early, leaving way late (with an armload of paperwork to take home to work on too!!) It sucked SO bad. I was exhausted!

Finally, by Friday, I was finished! YIPPEE!!! Mr. Fab went out of town for the weekend, so I celebrated Friday night with a glass of wine, catching up on some DVR'd shows and topped it off with an 8:30pm bedtime! It was truly fabulous!!!

Saturday, I went to a mandatory Junior League volunteer shift. It worked out great because whoever planned it, grossly miscalculated how long it would take 30 women to sort Christmas ornaments. Our 9am-12pm shift was actually 9am-9:30am. SCORE! My bff Sarah and I decided to head over to the mall since we had a few hours to kill. Of course she didn't breath a word of this to her husband and I had no husband Saturday. It was great! Trey was at his grandparents house so I had nothing to do. It was like being all dressed up and no where to be.

Sarah and I had a great morning being together. We tore up Nordstrom...they had a great sale going on! The best part of our morning was when we were coming out of Nordstrom, I looked over and who do I see? None other than Trey! ...and my inlaws! It was so funny. Imagine turning around and seeing your child. It was like "Hey, I know him!!!" So hilarious!!

Saturday night, Sarah's husband threw her a wonderful "Faux-30" birthday party. (She'll be 31..the day before me. This was to make up for no party last year, I guess). I had a great time, caught up with a few old friends that I hadn't seen in awhile. Overall, great evening!

This morning, I picked up Trey and was planning on heading to the grocery store and Target to stock up for the week since I'll be recovering. I was surprised to have picked up a very sick and VERY tired Trey! Poor guy has a bad cough developing, runny nose, a big canker sore on his lip and his face was breaking out really bad (like baby acne). I called the pediatrician exchange. The breakout could have been from anything. Most likely being in a different environment (the inlaws) or from rubbing up against something that gave him a bad reaction. He's sleeping now but dosed up on Motrin and Benedryl. Hopefully he'll be alright.

No grocery store for me right now. Hopefully Mr. Fab will be home in a few hours and I will be able to sneak out of the house.

Sorry this was a bit too long. Guess that is what happens when you haven't posted in a week!!!
Hope you all have a great week. Next week, we'll all be gearing up for Thanksgiving. I can't wait to hear what you all will be up too!

Weekend

Mr. Fab and I had a wonderful evening last night at his cousins wedding. We ended up splitting up the day so we wouldn't have to leave T with someone all day long. Mr. Fab went to the ceremony while I stayed home and then my sister P watched Trey while we both went to the cocktail hour and reception.

My sister was borrowing my camera earlier in the day and I forgot to get it back. The only picture we managed to get is Mr. Fab taking a picture of a very tired me after the wedding.

I ended up wearing none of the dresses that I had originally picked out. I saw this dress when I was literally running thru Macy's a few days ago on my lunch hour. I LOVE matte jersey material! It looked SO cute and was a little out of the normal look that I go for. ...and the price was a total steal!

Mr. Fab and I attempted to have someone take a pic of the two of us with his iPhone. It didn't turn out at all so, unfortunately, no pics for us. Oh well!

Today, is a busy day of housework. Laundry, housecleaning, grocery shopping and many other things are on the list for today.

Hope you all had a FABULOUS weekend!

Friday, Friday!

TGIF!

I'm going to update my blog roll this weekend. Wanna be on the list? Leave me a comment!

I like to follow bloggy etiquette so if I'm on your blog roll, it is only proper for you to be on mine!

Have a wonderful weekend, friends!

Let's give 'em something to talk about

My little Trey is growing up SO fast. Gone are the days of having a "baby". Now we are embarking on straight up toddler-hood!

T has been talking for a few months now. And when I say "talk", I mean he says "Mama" (which comes out "Mom-Mom") and Da-da. He also says "Ba-dab-a-dab-a", "num-num" "baa-baa"(which means ball) and the famous "Baaaa-nan-ah"! You know what that means!!!

For the last week now, his words are getting a lot better and he is branching out with more letters. Mr. Fab and I have such a fun time playing "Can you say...." to him!

Here's a little run down of what we're talkin about at our house:

-"Bah-Bah" (meaning Ball) has not evolved to "Baww-ohl"

-his favorite yellow ball is "lelloooo baww-ohl"

-he loves to stick his finger is any little hole opening and says "ha-wl" in a MEGA southern accent. Say the word "hole" in your thickest southern accent. That is exactly what he sounds like!

-the word "mouse" is "mou--ffe" (breathing out of your nose when you say the F) That's probably the funniest one!

-Pineapple is "Pine-num-num"



I have a lot of this on our video camera. I hope to dig out the cord this weekend and get them on the computer so you can see my little guy in action.

Last night, I was trying to teach him to smile when i said "Smile". Somehow, his tongue kept popping out!!

Good times at our house!

Halloween Events

We had a super busy day yesterday. We took our family Christmas Picture at my sisters house. Every year, we try to do a different look for our picture. After over 30 years of pictures, it's getting a tad bit difficult! So, this year, my sister W offered to have the picture taken at her home in Eureka.

The session did not go as well as we would have hoped. Trey has a really hard time sitting still. We managed to get a good shot of our entire family but the picture for Mr. Fab, me and Trey did not go well. Trey decided that he would not sit still at all! Usually, he loves for Mr. Fab to hold him, but during the photo session, he would only let me hold him. It was really difficult to hold him for so long! In the end, we will either have our graphic arts department do some mega work on the picture, or we can just try it again another day.

After the photo session, we headed down to the parkway for a Halloween parade. It was so fun! The parade was actually all of the neighborhood children marching down the street! The beginning of the parade was a Eureka firetruck and the end was a police car with its lights flashing. T had an awesome time because he got to run down the street!

Here are a few of my fav pics...

Trey and Dada getting into the golf cart to head down to the parkway.

I love this picture of Trey and Mr. Fab. His face is just so priceless looking at our cute Giraffe. And in true Mr. Fab fashion, he and my brother in law had to fix themselves a little toddie for the parade!

Riding on Dada's shoulders
And they're off!


This is a great picture with Mr. Fab, Trey, my bro in law (on the very left) , brother and 2 sisters. Everyone is having a great time!


The Giraffe and Lily, my parents dog



Sucked to be the traffic behind the parade!!


This little boy was so funny! He was Captain Hook. Mr. Fab, my brother and my bro in law kept calling him Captain Morgan!


Ok, so I kinda forgot to buy something for Trey to put his candy in! So, good thinking on my part to grab a sand bucket from the beach!!


Overall, we had a great time! Trey was so good...he is just at that age where he does not want to be confined. He wants to run and run! We ended up only trick-or-treating at only 2 houses. He was getting pretty tired by then! I definitely see another Halloween parade in our future!

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween to all! I have to make this post quick. It's a busy day today at the Fab household. We have our family Christmas picture at 3pm, a parade afterwards and then of course, trick-or-treating! Trey is currently taking a nap (thank Jesus) so I have to get in the shower and give my hair a good blow out. Let's cross our fingers that it's a good hair day for Mama!

This is our first year to actually go house to house with Trey. Last year, he was 8 mo. old, so not big enough to go out.

This year, T is a giraffe. Hope you all have a great day. I'll fill you all in tomorrow with the weekend festivities!