Mother's Day weekend

Blergh.  Nothing like coming back to a boring job to make you miss your weekend.

The highlights:

·         Seeing law school friends during the day on Friday and meeting their 7 month old twins for the first time.  They were adorable! 

·         Surprising my parents Friday night.  We decided on heading to the restaurant early and when they turned the corner to hold up our water glasses with a sh*t-eating grin on our faces.  Everyone else wasn’t paying attention when they walked in, but I managed to follow the plans.  It took my parents about 30 seconds to register that both of their daughters were at the restaurant.  Hee hee.  Neither of my parents had any idea!

·         After the surprise we had a great (albeit short) weekend with the whole family.  We played dirty Scattegories- which is basically played the regular way but if you can find a dirty answer for a category you get double points.  That was quite interesting with my mother who doesn’t know a lot of the slang terms (but quite hilarious).

·         The magnolia tree my sister and I ordered for my mom came on time.  I was worried that it wasn’t going to deliver in time for us to plant it this weekend but it came and it looks great!

·         Seeing my sister’s condo that she bought with her boyfriend and meeting her rescue puppy.

The lowlights:

·         For the past couple of days I have been seeing a little dark blood mixed with the Crinone (progesterone).  Yesterday (aka Mother’s Day) I saw more blood (red) and even had to wear a tampon last night.  At first I thought it might be implantation blood but at only 10dpo this is right around the time I should be getting my period without the progesterone help….so I think the progesterone didn’t work this month.  I’m calling my doctor just in case, but I didn’t even have the heart to use a pregnancy test this morning.  The fact that I started bleeding ON Mother’s Day is just my body’s way of saying “F*CK YOU of course you are not pregnant!”  Lovely.

·         Getting annoyed at the airline stewardesses that proclaimed “Happy Mother’s Day!” five different times throughout the flight.  I’m fine with the holiday and it doesn’t make me too sad because I can celebrate the fact that I have an amazing mother- but when you continually say the phrase, it starts to gut punch those of us that have been unable to even get pregnant.  Gah.  Why not just mention it once??

·         Spending too much on dinner at Rick Bayless’ restaurant Topolobampo.  I mean, the food was good, but my Artic Char dish wasn’t worth $35.  We couldn’t get into Frontera, his less expensive and more well known restaurant, so we settled for Topolobampo.  I guess I was expecting more from a Top Chef Master winner.

·         Getting a call from the vet on Friday.  She gave us the bad news that although Fuzzy Britches’ UTI is gone, she still has crystals in her urine.  We have to go back in 2-3 weeks and bring in another urine sample.  If there are still crystals it means she most likely has either bladder stones or kidney stones and will have to undergo an MRI.  Poor baby.  :-(

While it seems as if I have just as many lowlights as highlights, the weekend with my family was great.  I didn’t think about anything related to a potential pregnancy until Sunday morning when I saw the blood.  :-(