today was a wonderful day- rainy and cold and the baby took long naps and M and i laid around and played games and told stories and ate lunch on my bed picnic style. it was actually my favorite day, or favorite kind at least. until about 2:30- when the baby woke up and began screaming (not her usual screaming). no, this time she was sick. she was throwing up and crying and trying to nurse, but throwing it all up. it was horrible and sad and a crappy way to cap off a perfectly nice day.
normally, if something like this was happening, i would just pile us all into my bed and put movies on. unfortunately, i needed to drop off all of my items for yet another consignment sale that i am doing this weekend. and the stuff was due in tonight. so, instead of being able to baby the baby, i had to pack her into the car in the rain.
we start the car and the phone rings- it's my husband. i answer begrudgingly, because i really just want to turn the music up (a.k.a. drown out the crying baby sounds) and drive. but i put on a pleasant voice, put the car back into park and say, "hello."
he tells me to bring the girls outside- there's a rainbow. i tell him we're already in the car, so he tells me where to drive to be able to see it the best. i take off. it was amazing and huge and bright- right across the sky! i'm yelling in excitement as i turn the car towards the rainbow. but, my three-year-old doesn't see it. she asks where it is. "right there!" i point- it's there, big as day. "where?" she really can't see it?!? so, i drive off in search of the best view for her to see this rainbow. we drive for about 10 minutes (total, i ended up turning around when i realized we were nearing the underside of it, and figured we'd have a better chance of seeing it from afar.) my husband called again- i explained the situation. he is baffled. i am baffled. how can she not see it?
long story short (or shorter), i end up swinging by the house to pick up my husband (who had gotten home seconds after we drove off), and we went to an empty parking lot, where i took M out of the car and held her up to the sky to see the rainbow (which thankfully was still there, although slightly faded.) she saw it! Thank GOD! we danced and screamed and were very happy to see the rainbow!
my wonderful husband then drove us to the church to drop off the clothes for consignment, and we all got to recount our days (between baby sobs) and talk about the beautiful rainbow that we finally ALL got to see! which thankfully brought us back to a near perfect day.
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