We're Sick

It's been a rough weekend in the Harvey house, Aidan spiked a fever on Thursday night but woke up Friday morning feverless and seemed to be feeling a little bit better. He wanted to go to school so we let him go but as soon as he came home {our sitter said}, you could tell he was not feeling well at all.  This was the first time he has been sick since I started working and it really took everything in me to make it through the day and not come home and scoop him up.  My dad took over in the afternoon which made me feel a little bit better. 

Friday night we rented a movie onDemand and just vegged out.  I started to notice my throat was a little sore.  The price you pay for taking care of your sick baby.  Saturday I woke up and my throat was feeling a little bit worse.   Aidan has been dying to see the movie Rio so we all threw on sweat pants and tshirts and headed out  to see an early movie Saturday night.  I was really starting to not feel well at this point.  The movie was so cute and Aidan loved it.  He kept saying "Thank you, Daddy, Thank you, Daddy".  Apparently Adam gets the credit for everything! Haha! The boys stopped to play a few video games after our movie...

Today Aidan woke us up complaining his ears were hurting and I was absolutely feeling terrible so we got in the car and headed to urgent care.  Sure enough Aidan has double ear infections and we are both on the verge of strep throat. We have spent the entire day in bed and Adam has been the greatest nurse.  Julie came by with home made chicken noodle soup and painted my nails.  She is the best!  I can barely breath and Aidan is complaining about his ear regularly. I could be sick for weeks, I just want to see him get some relief soon. I am hoping after two doses of Amoxicillan he will be feeling ten times better in the morning.  

Here are some pics from the sick ward...

Urgent Care

Just totally out of it...

Aidan keeps telling us Spike our cat always knocks over his army men when he sets them up and we didn't believe him but I got out of bed for about five minutes and caught him in the act...

The boys are setting up army men, Spike is in the bottom left corner...

The approach...

{Aidan is saying, "NO SPIKEY, NO!"}

Bam!

{Aidan bursts out in laughter "Oh Spikey"}

And that's as exciting as it get's around here.  Say a prayer we feel better soon.  I HATE being sick.



Scarlett Houston Makes Her Debut

If you have seen me in the past 3 days you have probably already heard, seen, talked about for 20 minutes, watched me tear up over the birth of my dear friend Natalie's baby girl Scarlett!  Scarlett made her way in to the world Thursday morning at 3:07 a.m.  She weighed in at a tiny PERFECT 6lbs. 7oz.  I haven't asked Natalie if it is ok to post pictures of here her yet, but I can assure you she is gorgeous.  Nat has been sending me pics and I just cannot get enough of her.   I have been kind of whiny this weekend because I wish I was there to see her in person and hug Natalie but I am planning a trip to see them soon and they will be here in June.  I am trying my best to love her and support Natalie from what seems like a million miles away NC.  They are home and doing wonderfully.  I know Natalie is already an amazing mother.  I already missed her but this is making it ten times worse!!! Natalie was really there for me when I had Aidan and to get to share the adventure that is motherhood with her is so so so exciting!

So, welcome to the world Scarlett! Love you!

Adam

Honey,

     This morning I thought about you all the way to work with a smile on my face. I was thinking about how much fun we have and how much I love to hear you laugh. I was thinking about how sweet you were the other night in bed when I cried during that stupid movie.  Being loved by you will always be enough for me.  You, Me and Aidan. If that's all there ever is for us, I will die the luckiest girl in the world. I love you more than you will ever know.  -April

Auntie Can

I feel like we have been so super blessed recently.  My best friend Candace has really helped me out so much with my childcare for Aidan since going back to work and I can't ever thank her enough.  I started out so stressed that I was going to have to end up finding some sort of childcare that I was uncomfortable with for Aidan this summer until he resumed school at the end of August.  Candace eased my thoughts by offering to sit Aidan for the three days a week I needed some one.  Seriously, I feel like she saved my heart in that conversation.  Thank you so much Can! You don't know how much I appreciate you!!!!!  

Every time Aidan comes home from Candace's, Adam and I talk about how lucky we feel that we know he is with someone that loves him like we would when we have to be away from him at work.  Candace always keeps me updated on their adventures which I love.  She went out and bought a baby pool and sent me these pictures.  I melted. So cute. 

Cole is eating his thumb and Aidan is in his own little world.

Do you think he's had someone ask him to take his picture before?

OK, now I'll jump, Kansas.

True Life-Not Everyone Gets Along in a Family

The best way to say this is to do just that, say it.  Not everyone gets along in this family.  It can at times be really hard to see my friends carrying on weekend after weekend with their families and their husband's families and their sister's husband's family and so on.

When Adam and I started dating and I learned he had a sister, the thought of possibly getting married and gaining a sister excited me.  I was daydreaming about shopping trips, spa dates, girls night out and a new best girlfriend.  That daydream never became a reality. Not even close. 

In the beginning I tried really hard.  I wanted to impress. I wanted her to like me.  I wanted her to be just as excited about gaining a sister as I was.  It all started out wonderfully but somewhere it went really bad and it just keeps getting worse. 

I cannot pinpoint the turning point.  Once in a while Adam and I try to figure it out but so much has gone wrong, it really is hard to decipher.  Sometimes we think it was the fact that she was loosing her brother to a new girl, a new family.  Sometimes we think the catalyst was us getting pregnant and Aidan's birth.  Sometimes we think it's such small things that right now, I can't even think of one. 

We used to try to apologize.  To see things from her point of view.  We spent nights in bed feeling bad and trying to talk it out.  We realized it was the only thing causing a rift between us in our relationship.  We were both trying to make something right with someone who only wanted it to be right on her terms. 

We don't see each other and we speak rarely.  All of my expectations of how I thought our relationship was going to go have been tossed out.  Aidan, sadly, is old enough to realize but doesn't know he has an aunt.  To him his aunts are my close friends. Luckily we have the  relationships we do with our other family members. 

Our reality is that we wish is was different but not everyone get's a long in this family.

Mother's Day Weekend

I hope every single one of you had a great Mother's Day! I heard my Dad say something this weekend and it really stuck with me.  "Everyone is a mother to something."  Whether you are a mom to a cat, a plant, a small soccer team or the heavy spot in your heart waiting for a child, we are all moms and we all deserve to be celebrated.

We had such a fun weekend here in sunny North Carolina.  I took the day off on Friday to attend Muffins for Moms at Aidan's school.  His teachers put together a great little muffin breakfast and craft for us to make and Aidan could have cared less if I was there. He was in his own little world at school.  I am still glad I got to go. 

My Dad's friend's from high school flew in from Massachusetts on Thursday night for a long weekend and I have to be honest, I don't know that I have ever laughed so hard in my life as I did this weekend.  The weekend included Carolina BBQ, tours of our great city, the "van", a Roller Derby double header, big home cooked Italian meal {Thanks Barb} and the consumption of some of the weirdest alchoholic concoctions. 

Adam and I spent the majority of the weekend in pain from laughter.  The stories told by Paul, Steve, Jim, Barbara, Denise, Marianne, Connie and my Dad are ones we will be telling for years to come.   We both were actually complaining that our abs and cheeks were sore this morning. 

As for my Mother's Day, we spent the morning with my Mom {the one, the only, the GREAT DEB DEKS} and saying farewell to our Northern friends.  I thoroughly enjoyed a Mimosa and Reduced Fat Blueberry muffin in the sunshine. We spent the afternoon laying around watching movies and then the early evening re planting our flower boxes and getting my new topiary's in to their planters.  We ordered take out from Sullivan's and had a picnic on the living room floor.  Now, I'm typing this blog out while my hubby gives me a foot massage {he really is the best} and debating whether or not to eat the slice of cheesecake I bought for dessert.

We still have tons of stuff going on around here I am looking forward to showing you.  New windows, living room progress, the finish touches of the laundry room projects, a hallway painting project and I'm working on having all my ducks in a row so I can take you all on a little finished house tour.  If anyone else wants to participate, I would love to do a link up.  I love to look at other's people homes and get some great ideas!

Thanks for checking in!  xoxox

What I Wore On Weds.

I have been having so much fun pulling stuff together at home to wear to work. EXCEPT this week.  I was a little lazy. Whoops. So let me confess, this is actually what I wore last Thursday BUT who cares, the post is still fun and I wanted to show you what I wore! You should join! I need outfit inspiration as well!!! 

Some people complained I wasn't smiling in last weeks post, so here is my attempt at a smile.  

Also, here is my apology my dark trouser jeans were not photographed in the picture. I wish we had a floor length mirror in the bathroom at work!

 Cardigan: Gap

V Neck Tee: Gap

Dark Denim Trouser Jean: Gap

Flower Pin: Old Navy {I fully intend on making some of these on my own}

I also fully intend on trying to shop other places that the Gap sometime soon.  That was a lie, wasn't it Amanda?

Seriously this entire outfit might have cost me $30. 

If anyone wants to talk about how awkward/fun it is to take pictures of yourself in the bathroom at your job, while hoping no one walks in on you, I've got some things to say. Just FYI.

Happy Cinco De Mayo