Wow, whata week

I swear this has been a week from H-E-Double Hockey sticks.

We celebrated Monkey's 1st Birthday on the 20th. It was just a quiet little party with a cake and prezzie. Nothing over the top. I was and still am in denial that my little baby boy is now a toddler. It really does feel like it was just yesterday that I brought him home. That was fine and dandy, but Sunday is when it all turned to pot.

The Monster and I took advantage of the beautiful day by spending a few hours down at the Inglewood Bird Sanctuary. Had lots of fun just walking along the pathways and trying to find birds. Didn't have much luck in that department as the only birds around Calgary right now are sparrows, chickadee, gulls and magpies. Took the camera anyways and got a couple of good shots of a chickadee and Monster. We were down there for about 3 hours and only had one tantrum over the silliest of things, completing our walk. But in the end it was a nice walk, I even took him for ice cream cause for the most part he was a good boy. Oh my did he ever enjoy that. I can't believe how enjoyable it is to watch a 4 yr old eat ice cream, such a sparkle in his eye.

So anyways we get home and I start dinner. All is still fine and dandy, just a great day but then at 8:30 my father wanders upstairs and says "I think you need to call the ambulance" Oh lord not now. The man is having chest pains and feeling nauseated. So the paramedics come, get him hooked up to the heart monitor and then a fire truck shows up. Well, Monster thought this was the coolest thing ever. Who cares that Gramps is sick, there is a Firetruck Mom!!!!. The EMT's didn't need their assistance, but before they left, daddy and Monster got to go check out the truck, very cool indeed.

So turns out Dad was in heart distress so the EMT's hauled him off to the Foothills. I gave it about an hour and I headed off to the hospital myself. The Social Worker took me up to the Cardiac unit and there I sat for 2 + hours waiting for someone to come talk to me, even though the nice lady told me that someone would be out shortly. Anyways at 12:30 I decided maybe I should go find someone and call the unit desk. Holy Crap they forgot about me, yippee. Get into see Dad, he feeling great, on some wicked meds which have made him wired so he's not at all tired. So that's a relief, but now its a wait and see game as to what will be done for him, a balloon or surgery. I head home at 1:30 and fall into bed only to be up at 7:30 and rudely at that. That is another story to be continued in a while.

Its My Birthday

Well today is my 38th today and thought I would do my first post.

I got to sleep in until 8 am this morning Woohoo! Thank you Monster!!!

Its not the most beautiful of birthdays as it snowed last night and its gloomy. Then again I can't remember a birthday when it wasn't like this. Well I can, my 9th b-day, it was so gorgeous, sunny & hot my mom allowed us to wear shorts that day. Ah that was so long ago.

I made my own b-day cake yesterday, Confetti Angel Food, my favorite. Will be having that with strawberries and cream later today and my lovely man is taking me out for dinner. Yes an actual dinner date, its been so long. Thinking Vietnamese.

Not going to be doing anything else special, just the normal stuff, laundry, picking up after the 3 guys and hopefully getting some sewing/crafting done. My list is growing.