My 34th birthday was also a lovely day! It started just after 6:00 am when the nurse woke me up for my morning medicine. A few moments later the door opened again and I was very surprised to see Mark walking in the door. Just as surprising was the bag of Czech Stop Bakery kolaches, danishes and peanut brittle. Super yum! Since candles aren’t allowed he brought along a bic lighter and held it next to the apricot Danish as he serenaded me with Happy Birthday. I blew out the candle and made a wish. Actually I lie because everything that I would have on my with list is either already true or is about to come true! Instead I had a little moment of birthday thanksgiving and gratitute.
The rest of my day was filled with birthday phone calls & texts. I imagine there are some emails and facebooks messages waiting for me until I can log back into the system. (This is being written on word, then will copied and pasted in case you’re confused about my time frames or questioning my knowledge of verb tenses in the English language). Honey & Giddo (aka Ann & George) spent the day with me. We watched a movie, talked babies, laughed about a million different things, ate some muffaletta, and even managed to sneak in a five second snooze. They were so sweet to bring me a thriving ivy plant and tall and graceful bamboo plant (they’re supposed to bring wealth apparently!).
Mid-day Mark surprised me with a real birthday treat – a pre-natal massage right there in the hospital room (by a masseuse of course, not mark!). It was great and was certainly something I was dying to have but never would have gotten for myself. I got some other little goodies and they all managed to have an underlying theme of pampering myself (I guess it’s for now- while I still can pamper myself, and not be drowning in Pampers).
In the evening we shared a lovely meal from the local Indian restaurant, Indigo,.and moved onto to my mini birthday cake from Honey & Giddo. It was delicious! Some more good news from my birthday-in-the-hospital extravaganza was I managed to eat exactly what I wanted and my silly gestational diabetes all stayed within the acceptable range (woo-hoo! I wasn’t going to get in trouble!).
Thanks to all for helping to give me a great birthday. Now we just have to wait patiently for the next birthdays in my soon-to-be not-too-small family!
Major brownie points for Mark on the prenatal massage. I hope you were able to completely relax even if you did have to lay in a hospital bed!
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