A Birthday to Remember

The past three days have been quite the experience. On Wednesday morning Brinley and were scheduled to fly back to PA. Well, I woke up that morning to find that the cold that I had been dealing with for five days had turned into a sinus infection and spread to my left eye. It was completely red and puffy and I'll stop with the descriptions there and just call it plain gross! I was so upset, not because I didn't feel well, but the fact that I was going to look ridiculous flying on a airplane with a freaky looking eye. (I guess that is the vain side of me coming out.) Anyway, I decided just to swallow my pride and not worry about it and just get through the plane ride and I could go to the Dr. as soon as I landed. The plane ride honestly went wonderful! Brinley couldn't have been better. Normally she never sleeps long on planes but somehow someone was looking out for me and she slept about half the time. The other half she was playing with this nice old lady that she befriended at the gate.
After Greg picked me up we went straight home so I could go to the Dr and get some medicine for my eye. It was after hours so I had to go the ER to be treated because for some odd reason out here they don't have any instacares. So I got my medicine and started my treatments. I finally felt some relief and was excited that the next day, the 8Th, was my birthday!!!
Well, the next day I felt anything but excited. Over night my eye infection spread to the other eye and I woke up with now two red eyes. Plus I had to take Brinley to the Dr. for her 9 month check up and run a million errands because I had been in Utah for a whole month and there was nothing in our house. I just ended up telling Greg that we would pretend that my birthday was the next day and celebrate in then.
The next day both my eyes looked a lot better and I also felt much better. I was thinking great this is going to be an awesome birthday now. Well, wrong again. I was introduced to a whole new experience in parenting, a throwing up baby. Up until now Brinley has only been sick with colds, never a stomach bug. At about 4:30pm I was feeding her dinner and she threw up all over her high chair. My first thought was great nothing got on her or me! I took her out of her high chair and decided just to give her some juice to keep her hydrated instead. As I was feeding her the juice she started pushing it away and she wouldn't drink anymore. I sat her up and all the sudden she just threw up all over me and herself. I have never seen so much throw up in all my life! I was covered!! I guess you're not really a Mom until you've been thrown up on. Needless to say I told Greg that we would postpone my birthday until Saturday.
Today has been a wonderful Birthday. Brinley is healthy again. I slept in, Greg did all the throw up laundry, he took me to lunch and then we went and got the one thing that will make any birthday a fabulous birthday, a Steinschag at Zwahlen's. For those of you that don't know what that is take a look at the picture! It is the best dessert ever. If you come and visit us we will take you to get one. Anyway, hooray for me finally getting to celebrate my birthday!!