Ouch

What started off as a promising 3 1/2 day weekend turned into a painful lesson in depth perception in a hurry!

Our weekend started out great on Thursday because it was time to pick A up from tennis camp at UNT. She had been there since Sunday and I couldn't wait to see her again. We are apart every summer when my mom takes the kids to WV to visit the grandmothers but this was different. My girl was in a new environment with total strangers and I was afraid all that tennis in the TX summer heat would do her in. She thrived and had a ball. Her team even won first place in the tournament and she won every singles and doubles match she played. Her coach nominated her for Player of the Week but she didn't win. She even liked the cafeteria food!

Friday, I took the kids to see Kung Fu Panda. They had already seen it but E loves it and wanted to see it again. Since Mom took them the first time, I decided it was okay to see it again with me. It is a super cute movie and E had a ball watching it a 2nd time (and even wanted to go back again on Saturday and Sunday but I explained we will have to wait until it comes out on DVD). After the movie, we suited up and went next door to our neighbors to swim. That is when the pain hit......I underestimated the depth of the 2nd step into their pool and lost my balance. For what seemed like minutes, I slowly fell backwards until my rear end hit the edge of the hot tub wall. OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I guess I hit it pretty hard because everyone around the pool was asking if I was okay. Since this was my neighbors pool, I didn't want to look stupid so I said I was just fine and that the water must have broken my fall. It took all of my inner strength to sit on the side of that pool for the next 30 minutes trying to make polite conversation when all I wanted to do was cry and get some ice for my throbbing backside. By the time we got home and I iced 'r down, I could barely sit, stand or walk. I'm too strong (or stupid) to give in and go for butt xrays so I just spent the rest of the weekend screaming in pain whenever I moved and trying to be a trooper so I wouldn't ruin everyone else's weekend. Go me - I am woman - hear me roar and all that crap.

It didn't help matters that my dear hubby was being a complete horses rear end about the whole thing. He didn't believe I was really hurt and thought the fact that I couldn't sleep was humorous. He was a complete jerk about it all weekend and did little to help me w/ anything because he had his own stuff to do. I'm sure my pain made him seem like a bigger jerk than he really was but that is my perspective and I'm sticking to it.

My parents move into their new house this week so I ended my long weekend painfully helping my mom pack up the spare bedrooms, bathrooms, kitchen and office. I could have probably been twice as helpful had I not been hurt but Mom didn't hold it against me since I was the only family member actually helping her at all. My father refuses to help since he volunteered to pay to have the moving company do all the packing and my mother said "no". My brother disappeared with his girlfriend's family for the weekend to the lake and was just too tired when he got home on Sunday to do much more than get some high stuff down for me since ladder climbing was not something I wanted to attempt w/ a broken hiney. Hopefully everything will be packed when the movers show up on Wednesday.

Another bad moment of the weekend came last night when I realized no one had told A that my parents dog died while she was at tennis camp. We didn't want to break the news at camp so we all decided to tell her when she got home and then we forgot. So we are sitting there last night talking about my brother's stupid dog that scares E to death and A looks over and says "Where's Blackie?". Uh oh - another stellar mommy moment!! We all looked at each other and she started crying when she realized what our silence meant. Geesh we really stink as adult type figures sometimes.

So that is what happened on my super duper long weekend! Looking forward to the next one...so what did you do this weekend?