Everything is fine, but this is the saddest day EVER

I don't want to alarm anyone (especially grandparents!) with today's post.  Baby and I are absolutely FINE!  However, this is a sad, sad, day...

Today would have been the start of my Spring Break!  And while my brothers think that I have spent the last month on "spring break," I keep assuring them that this hasn't felt like any kind of a break to me!  My plans for Spring Break were to go back to Ollie (I would have been the last person to ever consider IOWA as a Spring Break destination, but I had fun plans!).... Baby Shower would have been yesterday, NKOTB CONCERT IN DES MOINES TONIGHT, and then dinner tomorrow night with two wonderful friends from high school that I haven't seen in ages!!  I also was planning on meeting a new little baby who was just born last Thursday!  My best friend and his wife had their second baby boy, Brody.... I've seen pictures and he looks ADORABLE!  Since I can't come home to meet him, maybe ya'll should plan a trip to MN, Derek???

Now I know I've tried to maintain a fairly positive outlook through all of this, but I'm requesting one day of self pity....  I feel like I've earned it... And that day is today!  I am actually devastated that I will not be attending the New Kids on the Block concert tonight.  As in, there have been multiple days of tears over this, not just today.  When I was put on modified bed rest, the first question I asked my doctor was if I could go to the concert..... I even offered to pay for my doctor to come back to Iowa with me and stay in a nearby hotel so he could be there if something bad happened (he surprisingly declined?!).  When I was put on full bed rest, I didn't ask for fear that he would drop me as a patient, but I wanted to!!  I flew out to New York City to see them last May and also went to their concert here in Minneapolis in October.  I have been a die hard fan for the past 20 years and never stopped listening to their music!!!  (Now that I think about it, perhaps that is why I didn't make more friends in colleege??)  Both of these events made me that much more excited that I would be seeing them again in Des Moines.  To top it off, I would have been going with my mom and family friends back home (all part of the crew that had tickets to their concert in Iowa City in 1986!).  Who would have thought at the time that we'd be able to re-live the moment 20 years later!!!!!  Turns out it was too good to be true, and I won't be re-living the moment :(  I got an email from Tanya a little bit ago and her and her daughter Zoey are decked out with shirts, hats, posters and stickers, ready to start their drive to the concert!!!  To Tanya, Yvonne and Zoey- HAVE SO MUCH FUN AND I WANT FULL MINUTE BY MINUTE DETAILS TOMORROW FIRST THING.  NO SLEEPING IN!  To Jen (who took my ticket), I'll be anxious to see pictures from my floor seats.  If you get to touch ANY of them, I will be SO MAD.

Junior was actually with me for the October concert and I just KNOW he enjoyed himself!! Check out Junior's little "Step by Step" band onesie that he'll be wearing for the next few years- I got it in a size 18 months to make sure he could enjoy it for awhile :)  HA.  I actually am 100% not kidding when I tell you one of the nursery theme ideas was NKOTB.  I have LOTS of fun memorabilia and thought it would be a unique, one-of-a-kind nursery.  Eric of course veto'd the idea from the get-go and I felt I had little chance of swaying his opinion, so I caved.  Maybe that can be an idea for a toddler room??

Last but not least, to anyone going to the concert tonight, PLEASE call me during their key songs and let me enjoy the singing/ screaming via my phone- 952.818.9652!

I promise I'll be back to "positive" tomorrow, but today is officially "Feel sorry for April day." Join in the pity party if you'd like!

P.S.  My mom just left to drive back to Iowa and she was a mess with all her tears!  I kept telling her that I too was sad about the concert and she said that wasn't why she was crying.  Why else would she be crying on a day like today??