Ah what a weekend! :)

This weekend is a Ricky's work weekend which many times means I'm stuck in the house by myself and no car to go anywhere...the housework gets done lol but I usually wear myself out trying not to have the walls close in around me!  I'm not a "I like to be by myself for hours person"!  Most times I dread every other weekend - mostly the ones where he works night shift because then when I want to go out and do stuff the most or just hang out with Ricky doing nothing of consequence...he's not here and neither is the car...But some weekends I bum a ride to my parents, crash on their futon and make plans to do something...this weekend is one of those.

Saturday, OnQ, the drama team I'm part of started filming for a project that's been in the works a few months...thankfully my character can be as pregnant as she wants lol!  (though most of my costumes ala 50's style really hide most of the belly).  I was looking forward to this project but had no idea how I was going to get to Bethlehem to shoot!  Enter the "teletextmailbumaride"...Ricky dropped me at my parents late Friday after we went to see Despicable Me with Maria and Meena (Awesome adorable movie btw!)...Mom brought me to Quakertown Sat. morning...where Rashada took me the rest of the way to Bethlehem lol!  Have thumb will travel!  But hey, I got there right!  Thanks to a lovely little chain...though I was a little sketchy on the return trip...oh well, worry about that later!

Things went amazingly smooth for a project that had some many delays and issues early on, but thank God...I think we got everything we need?! (Hopefully)  Xavier apparently enjoys being on camera because every time the clap board and "Action" sounded, he was leaping around like someone would actually see him in the shot!  He's quite the ham...but hey I have NO IDEA where he gets THAT from!!!  I think I see commercials in his future...little caramel babies are too cute and can you just see one with Ricky's dimples and sharp wit lol!  It was all I could do not to crack up thinking about it while we were shooting scenes!  After we wrapped for the day, Dan (who's an old friend and playing my infuriating husband lol) drove me back to Quakertown, where my mom got me and brought me back to her house.

Still wasn't sure how I was getting back to Hatboro, but Marissa and Maria were going shopping and I was like "Wait for me!!!"  We had a blast...they in the clearance juniors (this was the part where I tried not to cry remembering what my waist USED to look like) and then on to the baby sections!!!  I was good and only bought 2 things for Xavier and 3 things for his cousin lol!  Trust me, I had about 35 items in my hand over a 2 hour period...oh yes, and I have a major gripe about the mall...how can the McD's in the mall food court NOT CARRY MOCHA FRAPPES?!!!  This is a travesty!  I almost had a prego woman meltdown on this poor 16/17 year old girl who looked like a deer in the headlights...Marissa and Maria were nice enough to stop at another one on the way to the next store...though I think this was out of self-defense because I was steaming around the edges with angst...Prego woman meltdowns are NOT PRETTY...but I'm usually reasonable and most people have not had to see me like that...actually most times I have a craving I just go get it myself as not to bother anyone...

This lovely shopping trip was topped off with a meal made by my sister Maria of stuffed shells, macaroni, salad and garlic bread...Oooo I love good food!  I tried to bribe Ricky to come get me after work with the stuffed shells, but he told me he had to work overtime because someone got sick :(  I was bummed cause I really wanted to go home and see him but didn't have a way there and would prob spend another night on my parent's futon...which is great, but sadly missing Ricky!  Marissa had a great solution!  She was going to go to the shore and her car would be sitting...so that's how I ended up driving home in Marissa's awesome car! (Btw, 4-door Honda Civic manual is now on the top of my list when we go car shopping this fall before the baby comes!)  I called Ricky to tell him he didn't have to pick me up and was going to try to trick him but he could tell I was in the car.  He also revealed that he was home and NOT working overtime (little liar tsk tsk) and I was annoyed because I would've come home hours ago and made him dinner then if I had known...but he claimed it was a rough day and he needed some "chill out" time.

I was so happy to see him when I walked in, I didn't even care that he was a brat!  I tackled him with kisses :)  Then went to unpack my stuff...Ricky had every light in the house on so he asked me to turn off the lights and stuff in the bedroom because he forgot...  I walked in to the room and there it was... OUR CRIB all set up and beautiful!  I don't even know what I said first but I was so thrilled I wanted to laugh, cry, jump up and down and just touch it to make sure it was real!  For weeks I've been waiting for the replacement pieces to come in so we could put it together and they finally did on a weekend Ricky had to work, then we discovered we forgot 2 pieces at my friends house who gave it to us so I was beside myself that it would NEVER be put together!  I have never in my life felt more driven to have everything in my house in order then I do now...and the crib was the first large piece of the nursery furniture that we had just sitting there tormenting me!  Ricky will tell you, it had me a pouty crying ridiculous mess each time we had a set back!

What can I say, he's amazing and I love him...That was the best surprise I've had in a while!!!  And of course I thought Marissa and Maria must have been in on it, but they weren't lol!  It just all happened to work out perfectly!  And now today, I'm going to go out with a huge smile on my face to visit my friend Smiles and my sister-in-law who was having contractions all night :( No baby yet, but by the time the baby comes it should be a cake walk with all the contractions leading up to the grand day!  And of course a stop at the baby clothes outlet at the mall just because I love looking at and touching the clothes imagining my little boy in them! :) 

P.S. Xavier says hi to everyone, his insistant little kicks keep reminding me to add this note!