I thought weekends were supposed to be fun...

What a weekend! I had some challenges to get through. First on Saturday, was my sister-in-law Jenny's baby shower. Then, on Sunday, my sister had her baby blessed in church. So..yeah..

Anyway, I really wanted Jenny to have a good baby shower, since she's having her third and never had a baby shower before. Plus she's been having a hard time lately, so I tried to be excited for her and help give her a good party. I thought that it would help if I involved myself in it instead of sitting on the sidelines, since it would help me feel more supportive and happy about it. Not that I'm not excited about having a new nephew, it's just with my circumstances, well, you know. So anyway, I spent all of Friday making a really cute cake and lots of treats for the shower. I also spent a lot of time preparing games. On Saturday, I went with my sister to buy decorations and helped Jenny's sister-in-law Trisha set up and prepare for the party at Trisha's house. The party started and I was having a good time until I tried to do the games. Then I got really irritated because people were being really dumb about doing the games. I got this baby themed charades game and they acted like they didn't know how to play. Charades. Seriously. One person asked me " How do we play?" After I had explained. "I was like, Well, it's charades, with baby-themed actions" Blank stare. Really? Then I tried to do this pin-the-bun-on-the-oven game, which I spent an hour making out of really cute scrapbook paper. You know the traditional route of that game, blindfold and spin the person around, and see how close to the object (in this case a pregnant belly) they can get. I went first to demonstrate. But no one wanted to do it, and I asked this older lady and she said "No, I'll get dizzy" Umm, that's sorta the point, you moron! Then we did this fill in the blank nursery rhyme game I printed off the internet. One of the phrases was a little different than normal, and everyone seemed to have a problem with it. When I gave them this answer that I had from the answer key, this one lady would not let it go that she thought it wasn't right. I tried to explain that that was just the answer that came with the game, I wasn't trying to say she wasn't right, I was just saying that's what the game said, but she felt she needed to argue with me over it, when everyone else was thinking that it was just from a different verse of the rhyme. I was this close to yelling " I don't care what you think, its just the answer I have, you stupid old cow!" I realized that I was super irritated because it was really hard for me to be there in the first place, and I had spent all this time preparing and trying to make it a nice party and people were being stupid. The thought was going through my head "I don't have to be here, you know, I didn't have to come and deal with this, I was just trying to make it nice for Jenny" It was a challenge, but I finally got through it. I almost walked out, though. The only thing that helped me, and this sounds weird, was to take my sister's baby girl and walk around with her. I thought it was good because I had a reason to walk around and not have to interact with anyone because I was busy taking care of her. Jenny had a really good time, which I am glad for.

So then on Sunday, I went to my sister's baby blessing. After church we went over to her in-laws for a luncheon which I helped to prepare even though I hadn't planned on it. I took the cake that I made for Jenny's shower to it because no one ate it at her party. I added some pink to it to make it look like it was for my niece, and I got a lot of compliments on how cute it was and how yummy it was so that made me feel better. That wasn't so bad, but still a reminder of my own crappy circumstances.

So anyway, I go in this week to get my thyroid tested again. I hope that things are normal, and the new medication is working, but kinda doubt it since I'm still getting headaches. At least they aren't everyday now. They're starting to go away, but I'm still getting them 2-3 days a week. Some improvement, though. Anyway, wish me luck!

Edit: Pics of cake. It says "Welcome Baby Liam" For my sister's party I took off the bottle shapes, put more dots on and added smaller pink dots on top of the blue ones, but I didn't get a pic of that.