Hangover relief

Thanks to great in-laws and a sweet husband my birthday was relaxing and fun. However, the 17th of July was not the beginning of birthday fun...

Last Tuesday morning I got a knock on the door from my girlfriend Jodie-- of course she looked fabulous and as if she had been awake for hours and hours (never mind she is probably exhausted and sleep deprived with her two little boys 14 months apart or some craziness like that! She looked quite the opposite though) while I answered the door still in my darling pajamas, hair everywhere, and mascara smeared all over my face. If I actually knew what having a hangover felt like, I would guess that how I looked and felt like on that morning was just it. However, Jodie had the cure!

"Happy Birthday!" she greeted and in her hands was a delicious glass container of Oberweis Milk and a package of Double Stuffed OREOS. Ahhhh... I could not have thought of a better prescription for stress. What a sweetheart.

Not long later, my hometeacher and his daughter dropped by (No, I hadn't learned my lesson and I answered the door yet again, in the same dishoveled state!) with homemade chocolate chip cookies and a hide-a-key. How appropriate, given my past week's adventures with keys and car doors. That was awesome.

The next day, we were at the airport getting ready to head to Boise. After a blowout in Savannah's diaper so bad, I finally gave in and went to one of those ridiculously expensive shops in the airport to buy Savannah some clothes to change in. (The blow-out occurred AFTER we checked the bags.) But that wasn't the fun part. The fun part was Kyle sitting in a row on the airplane with both children the ENTIRE flight to Boise while I read a book the row across from them. An entire book. Now that, my friends, is true love...