Oh what a night

and unlike Billy Joel, mine had nothing to do with a rendezvous with an "experienced" women (although i hope that goes without saying).

melissa came over last night to keep me company and help out with jaden this morning. we had lots of fun...so that was the good part.

the not so fun part was coughing until 1:30 am (hard to sleep when you are coughing) and then waking up to jaden crying at 4:30 this morning. he had wet the bed, which hasn't happened in a long time.

the worst part about it was that bear got caught in the crossfire, so i had to break the news to jaden that he was going to have to sleep the remainder of the morning without bear. which meant i had a crying 3 year old on his floor bawling, "i can't sweep without bear! i won't sweep without bear!" it was pretty sad.

we figured out a compromise eventually...has anyone ever tried to negotiate with a 3 year old in the middle of the night on 3 hours of sleep? it took some finesse.

i decided by the time it was over that it wasn't worth it to go back to bed, so i got ready for work and got here by 6 am. i guess that is good.

i'm viewing all this not sleeping stuff as preparation for my newborn who should be coming in 8 weeks.

my gift to my husband

remember how i was surprised by my hubby with a new refrigerator for christmas? well, i was finally able to return the favor.

i was able to buy my husband (drum roll please) ...

a plumber visit and a new sump pump! yeah!

and on top of that we got our kitchen sink snaked as well. apparently everything wants to go to crappola at once.

so it isn't a new tv or game console...but my gift definately improved our standard of living at home. since our current standard of living was staying up all night bailing water because it was raining in January, and we had over a foot of snow melt. we were also unable to use the kitchen sink because of the clot from hell.

but home is home again. we had good help and advice from our friends, and a seemingly competent plumber. we also have jobs with flexibility (my boss was sweet enough to offer to run out and buy us a backup sump pump at 7am in the morning), so it didn't turn out so bad.

did i mention that i grew up with an irrational fear of the sump pump? its a long story and potentially another blog post...but needless to say, the incident helped me face my demons.

good times were had by all.