The weekend of all weekends

Maycee was gone.

From Friday at 6pm to Sunday at 4pm.

I didn't think having my child at my parents' house for the weekend was going to throw me so out of kilter.

For our anniversary, Stephen and I planned a trip to the Oregon coast.  To the most "romantic city on the ocean", Lincoln City.  That trip was canceled due to the rage that cycled through my body on the day of our actual anniversary.  Instead, we decided to spend a quiet weekend at home with Maycee spending the weekend on the farm.

We met my parents and the infamous favorite Aunt Karli in Wendell, ID on Friday night to do the swap.  As soon as Maycee saw Karli, she wanted nothing to do with Stephen or me.  We tried to leave with a kiss and a hug and she acted like an annoyed teenager as she acquiesced to our wishes before she could get to Karli.  Someday I will repay that girl...

Stephen and I ended up staying in Wendell to kick off our weekend in the local diner.  The Farmhouse Restaurant.  The name of the restaurant was enough to make us want to eat there.  Secretly, Stephen has been wanting to go to this diner ever since we have begun our frequent trips past this tiny town of Wendell.  We won't say why.

The food was surprisingly good!  It also seemed to be the local hangout for all of the "old" people in Wendell.  Everyone that walked in the door knew and said hello to everyone else in the restaurant.

Driving home felt weird without having a car seat or a jabbering toddler in the back.

That night I tossed and turned all night long and woke up at 6:30am and could not go back to sleep.  At 8am I finally got out of bed and went to the living room to read.  A while later Stephen came out to check on me.  I burst into tears.  I couldn't believe the reaction that I was having to missing my little girl.  I had never been away from her overnight!  ...Now I was going to have to do it twice.

Stephen called my parents to check on Maycee as tears were rolling down my cheeks.  As I heard Maycee in the background a fresh set welled up in my eyes and I knew I wasn't going to be able to talk.  It was so odd to hear her on the phone.  Normally I am the one letting people talk to Maycee on the phone.

After we hung up the phone with my parents I tried not to think about Maycee and we started our day.  It started with the garden.  We finally cleaned it out.  We then got ready for the rest of our "date day".

At 3pm we left to go to the Taco Bell arena to watch the Boise State Broncos play basketball.  Honestly, it was really fun to go and watch, but...they were awful.  We played Air Force and got our trash kicked.  I should have known that was going to happen from the very beginning when they were playing the National Anthem and the Boise State players were not even in a straight line and were slouched over.  The Air Force guys were clean cut, standing up straight, and in a straight line.  The final score was Broncos 59 and Air Force 74.  Air Force played really good ball.  The entire game I kept whispering over to Stephen that our guys were really slow.  They couldn't keep up! ...oh well.  It was still fun.

EXCEPT!!!....the security guard at the front took my water bottle!  He stole water from a pregnant lady and then lied by saying that he would give it back to me as soon as we walked back out.  ...We wandered around that stadium for 20 minutes looking for that water bottle after the game.  Ggggrrrrrrrr.  I'm still mad about that.  It just happened to be my special Boise OBGYN water bottle!

After the game, Stephen and I went to Cafe Ole.  Mexican Food is my favorite thing in the entire world.  Thank you for taking me Stephen!  We settled our dinner with blizzards at Dairy Queen and then watched a movie and went to sleep.

Sunday without Maycee wasn't as bad as Saturday.  I still felt out of kilter not having a little one in Sacrament Meeting.  I was much more aware of the other kids in the chapel.

We picked up Maycee later that evening and it felt like she had been gone for weeks!  I know, that sounds really dumb, but I felt like I had missed so much time with her.

Now everything is right.

We have Maycee and she is her normal toddler self.

I don't think that our house missed her...