Birthday and Pig Flu

Last Monday, I officially entered into what will be the last year of my 20s. To be honest, I was somewhat put off about this birthday. Not upset, but not excited. My last year of still being "young". At least that is my husband's definition. He loves to tell people he went for the trophy wife the second time around since I am 12 years younger than he is. I was only 20 when we started dating. Whoa... that's seems like a lifetime ago now. Anyway, he always calls me his hot, young wife. I am not worried about turning 30 next year. I am actually kind of excited about it.

Well, all birthday plans to have a nice dinner out with my husband and children were put on hold when Leila came down with flu-like symptoms early Saturday morning. I immediately took her into the pediatrician which is totally unlike me. It has to be pretty darn serious for me to go into the dr. In fact, each child has only ever had one sick visit, and Violet's resulted in a hospital stay. You get my drift. So, Leila was running a ridiculously high temp that OTC meds would not bring down. It was up to 105* in the office. They did a nasal swab, and it most definitely came back positive for flu... swine flu. Oh, excuse me... H1N1. Don't want to offend the pig farmers. We did manage to score a Rx for tamiflu which I was able to track down rather easily compared to others I have heard about going all over town to find it. Thankfully, her fever broke sometime the next day. We would only be confined to the house for 5 days with a low grade temp.

So, instead of an evening out my sweet husband made me a delicious dinner of kobe beef, homemade crab cakes, bacon wrapped scallops, and asparagus. Mmmm... delicious. I was also presented with a delicious brownie cheesecake for dessert. I was also surprised with my husband spending days completing random tasks around the house and getting me whatever I needed to help get our house organized the way we need it. That means the world to me given how our disorganization has not been helpful lately. Mind you, my real life friends are probably laughing at me reading this and thinking about how "disorganized" we are here. None the less, it is disorganized for me and was creating a tremendous amount of stress for things like getting out of the house and not being able to find what I need easily. So, getting a handle of these things was a great gift on top of the gift cards they already presented to me.

My birthday was very low key this year, but it was honestly one of the better ones. I had my wonderful family around me and a great husband spoiling me. I can only hope for more of the same in the coming year.