Roots and Shoots

This weekend was kind of a blur needless to say. I was trying to figure out exactly what it is that we did over the weekend, and between my mother and I, we were loosing a few hours here and there. I know that a vast majority of my time was spent sleeping while Tyler and mom were reading their books that they were so consumed by. Tyler was reading Angels and Demons for a few days and was so intrigued by it that he finished it in less than a week. When he gets into a book, he just can't put it down. But thankfully that book had like 68 short chapters so he was able to put it down a little more often than normal.

Yesterday almost felt as though I was on a roller coaster. I wasn't sure what to expect out of my day other than Mom and I had decided that we were going to re-pot the plants in my house since it hadn't been done in over a year. We stopped at every home improvement store along with Gordman's, and Michael's. Needless to say we didn't find any kind of pot that I would have wanted to accent my home decor until we got to Michael's. After exploring their vast selection of pots, Mom and I returned home with our McDonald's Southern Tea and Iced Coffee in hand along with three bags of soil, a bag of peat moss, and three new potters. I must admit that even though I despise McDonald's a great deal, they do have a pretty good Southern Sweet Tea and Mom had nothing but compliments on their Iced Coffee.

While I sat with my feet propped up on the balcony, Mom instructed me on how to re-pot plants and the different ways that they'll grow. It's amazing how much information she has tucked away up there. We enjoyed our time getting messy on the balcony and decided that we should get a little walk in to the grocery store to pick up the necessities for dinner. Mom, the speed walker in the family was finding it a little hard to stay at such a slow pace with her daughter but managed to stroll with me while I waddled away.

We returned home from the grocery store a little over an hour later with Caribou Coffee in our tummies and a couple free bottles of water that the grocery store was apparently trying to rid themselves of. We enjoyed home made Calzones for dinner and after a little while, my periodic contractions started to even themselves out about 6:00. We decided to go for another little walk to try to get them to progress and turn into labor. I got so excited because it started working!!! We went through the neighborhood and I had a good number of contractions while I was walking. Mom and Tyler walking with smiles on their faces and I was going through pain. What great support huh. When we got home I labored for a few more hours and as they progressively got longer and stronger. Needless to say we were getting excited that the time was coming. After a little while of laboring in the living room. Mom informed me that if they were to stay the 2-4 minutes apart and over a minute long then we were going to make our way to Labor and Delivery. After hearing that I decided I wanted to take a bath to ease the pressure and clean up a bit before heading that way. What a bad bad bad idea.

Tyler started up an awesome bath for me, even plugging off the drain at the top of the bath that water runs out off when it gets too high. However, once I got into the bath tub, the contractions slowed and tapered off. At about 11:00 when the contractions had slowed enough, Tyler finally went to bed as we decided that it was probably not going to happen now. What a disappointing night. These false labor contractions really are annoying as I get my hopes up so much and they are chopped in half in the matter of minutes. Who knew I would want so much to put myself in pain. So again today I will try everything in my power to get her to come out and greet the world.