28 Years, 48 Roses, 4 eyes - and a Trip to the ER (AGAIN)

It was my birthday yesterday. We all celebrated it a day early because, as you may know, whenever we celebrate on my birthday with Kenneth, Lesley, and their kids we end up in the ER with one of the kids (Brandon) and a broken arm. This year we were taking no chances so we celebrated a day early. Turns out it's not the day, it's the actual celebrating... But I'll get to that...

Chris bought me 2 dozen roses. But it gets better! He found 23 ladies at work to deliver them to me, one at a time throughout the day. Then he brought in the final rose. On each stem was a note tied with a ribbon of a reason he loves me. Sweet and thoughtful! So all of the ladies at work know he's a great, romantic husband and I have 24 roses at work which are gorgeous!

Lesley bought me 2 dozen beautiful roses without even talking to Chris about it. You can never have too many roses. Her's are beautiful and they smell so great. So I have 24 roses at home. 48 roses... I am spoiled.

Lesley, Kenneth, and kids also treated us to a South African pancake dinner. Not like American pancakes, this is a cross between our pancakes and a taco/fajita thing. Delicious. And then there was cake.

So we made the kids stay in the house thinking if no one went outside there would be no falling off the jungle gym or out of a tree. Just as we were wrapping the evening up Chris said we needed to go to the ER. He's been getting headaches for about two months now and this one just kept getting worse and worse to the point he was slurring some speech and having muscle problems. And so, we spent the night at the ER. Lesley is my angel - she sat in the waiting room with Wilson the whole evening.

Chris is fine, the CAT scans were normal and they recommended seeing a specialist. Then they gave us our ER bill. I stayed home with Chris and Wilson yesterday and spent my birthday catching up on the sleep we all had missed the night before. As I'm taking care of "the boys", I think to myself - he's been staring at computers and PDAs and all manner of electronics for 10 - 12 hours a day. So I asked him if he needed to see an eye doctor. He says he has 20/15 vision. I think over the last 6 years and realize I can't remember him getting an eye exam. I asked when the last eye exam was administered. He said when he was 19. Well, darling, that was 10 years ago. I called my eye doctor and we got him right in this afternoon. Seems his distance vision is fine but he needs to wear glasses to see his computer screens and to read. We went out and bought him his very first pair of glasses! How exciting! The thing is that he's not thrilled about it. I'm not sympathetic. I got my first pair when I was 7 years old and those weren't just for working on the computer - those were so I didn't walk out in front of a car, fall into a hole, or run into a tree.

This is the last birthday we will celebrate with Kenneth, Lesley, and the kids. Next May they return to Johannesburg - which means we will probably have ER free birthdays every September from here on out...