It's Sunday, 3:10pm EST and we're on our way home from Nashville. Thanks to modern technology (and thanks to my techy geek husband), I am sitting in the passenger seat blogging!! This is, again, a win-win for Keith. I stay occupied so I don't complain about his driving and constantly grab my door handle and gasp when I think we're gonna hit someone. Keith IS a good driver, I'm just a paranoid passenger.
We had a great weekend in Nashville. It didn't go quite as planned, but what ever does?? We were very late leaving Atlanta. Alex's game ran over (they lost, boo hoo) and we were stuck trying to get out of the parking lot for quite some time. We then had to take Alex to a friends 45 minutes away in a different direction. Long story short, we did't leave Atlanta until about 10:45 pm and we had a 4 hour drive ahead of us. I was feeling a bit under the weather and driving up into the mountains was not fun. By about 12:30, I was ready to stop and spend the night somewhere. My ears kept filling up and the pressure was horrible. I found us a hotel and then proceeded to get us lost finding said hotel room. For an hour. Yes, an hour in east-bumble trying to find a hotel. I had a mini-breakdown. Finally, at 1:30 we laid down to go to sleep and I couldn't sleep because I couldn't breathe. I finally got out of bed at 5:15 and stood in a steamy shower. By 6:00 we were on our way to Nashville again. For anyone counting, that's 4 hours sleep for Keith and no more than 2 for Becky.
The rest of the ride to Nashville was great, we found CHI and attended part of the class. At the class we met Carey and Norman! Love them (thanks guys, for carting us around all day!)! Unfortunately, Rachel and Troy weren't able to meet up with us, so Carey, Norman, Keith and I decided to go meet Rachel and Troy! Carey showed us some great video and pictures of their little girl. It was so exciting to watch and boy is she a little cutie.
After that, we (Carey, Norman, Keith and I) headed to lunch to meet Carrie and Michael and Adrienne, Jim and Owen at Chili's. These are friends that I have been talking to for months. Adrienne's blog was the first one I had ever read. It was her blog that started me blogging and it's her strength that I go back to each time I wonder why I'm doing this and wondering if I'll make it through in one piece. Carrie is in the same boat we are, but much further ahead in the wait process. We were "the waiters" at the table. It's so refreshing to talk to someone that is in the middle of the wait, facing all of the unknowns we are now faced with. Thankfully, we sat next to each other so we had lots of time to talk about things.
The husbands were great! They realized us girls had lots to talk about so they became fast friends and talked sports and more sports. Every one in a while, they'd pop into the adoption talk (mostly reminding us to have patience) and then back to sports talks. I loved being able to meet everyone and their signifcant others! And then there was Owen......
WHAT A CUTIE! :-) He was so well mannered and so happy go lucky. He's definitely figuring those little legs of his out again and wants to go, go, go! It is so obviously how much he loves his mommy and daddy. He's signing like Iliya and I love watching that - they are so smart!
After lunch we got back to the hotel and were out cold. I woke up sick - this is no longer a cold. Blech. We were supposed to go to PF Chang's for dinner and I just couldn't even make it out of bed. Instead we ordered room service and watched Ratatouille! What a cute movie. Well, I missed the end cause I fell asleep (I have to take advantage of the moments I can breathe).
We woke up this morning and met Rachel and Troy for a breakfast of yummmy bagels. Rachel and I had some time to chat which was so nice! We've emailed so much over the past 4 months that it was just like meeting an old friend. I was worried I wasn't going to get my "Rachel-time"! Troy is just as sweet as I thought he'd be and they are just the cutest couple. We talked dogs... we love our four legged kids!
And here we are - back in Atlanta and time for me to call it a day. I'm heading straight for the couch. My ears have finally cleared but now it hurts to swallow. Keith offered to drill a hole in my head to relieve some sinus pressure. I decided to pass on that sweet offer.
A special thanks to all Carey, Carrie, Adrienne and Rachel for being such good friends during this time. I hope we are all able to meet up again (under healthy circumstances, of course!) - maybe even with all of our little ones in tow.
Hope everyone had a great weekend!
Becky
P.S. My plan to wear neutrals in the picture backfired. Since I was sick, I had no color in my face so now I'm a washed out mess. I'm just gonna stay BEHIND the camera from now on. :-)
11 comments:
Glad to hear you had such a great time. I am sure it really did feel like you were meeting up with old friends...this little "bloggin community" is pretty tight. Hope you start to feel better!
Becky,
It sounds like you had a great time even with the ears. Feel better soon.
Joy
So sorry you weren't feeling that great. Even being under the weather, it sounds like you still had a good weekend. Hope you are feeling better soon.
It was so great to meet you all in person yesterday! I'm sorry you are feeling worse and hope that you feel better. I enjoyed talking to you as well about the wait! It is nice to have someone who is right there going through it with you! Thanks for listening and for your encouragement! I look foward to meeting up again when the big wait is over! :)
Becky- What fun meeting everyone! I'm so glad that you had a good time, despite being sick. I chuckled at your neutral/washed out comment. :-)
Wow!! That's really cool that you all live so close to one another. Or relatively close. Too bad you were under the weather. It always seems to happen like that but hopefully you all will get together again soon!
Becky -
I love your posts you always make me smile! I'm sorry to hear that you aren't feeling the best this weekend must've really done a number on lots of people. With my sister being out of commission (see my blog) - we also had another guy call in sick to work today because he's sick. I hope that you get to feeling better soon! Try some airborne in the am when you get up in your OJ and at night before you go to bed. It always works wonders for me! I'll keep you in my prayers!
MJ
I'm playing catch up today and loved reading your blog. We too had a great time meeting you and felt like we'd known you for years. We cannot wait to do it again.
We also hope you are feeling better and I too will rethink what I wear for future pictures. Ha.
Geez ... I have to read all this to find out what is going on, where is the cliff notes blog? When do you travel? Did you get a referral? I did see something about the dossier, that was fun!!! :-) Send the gritty details. We just had Alex's 8th gotcha day and Andrew 6th is on the 24th of Oct.
So glad you all had a great time meeting in real life. Bummer you were sick. It's always a treat to be able to talk about adoption with fellow adopters.
Hope you're feeling better now.
So, are you feeling any better today? I recently had a sinus infection that leveled me for a week and a half so you have been in my thoughts ever since I first read your post a few days ago. My grandma swears by putting peeled garlic cloves in thick socks and sleeping with them on your feet. I find it at least makes for stinkier than usual feet and if you're really lucky an almost imperceivable improvement in how you feel overall (as soon as you take them off and wash your feet!). Anyway, thought that tidbit was worth passing along to a friend! :)
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