Sorry I’ve been M.I.A. the past couple of weeks. I’ve written before about our moving mishaps, which definitely threw me off my game a bit. Not as much as it threw my husband, mind you.

To recap: we sold our house much faster than we expected. Before closing, Atlanta got hit with those floods so the buyer’s lender wanted us to prove our house was waterproof. Yeah, it’s as dumb as it sounds, and it meant a mad scramble to find a contractor who could “prove” such a thing. Our nanny didn’t want to drive as far as our new neighborhood, so I was interviewing nannies. Had a string of mishaps there, culminating with a story my Facebook friends dubbed “Nannygate.” Let’s not go into it, except to say I finally ended up with a WONDERFUL nanny and am now fighting to keep the other mommies away from her at the playground.

We moved into a rental house without heat during the 32 degree weird weather days we had a month ago. So we unpacked in the freezing house during the day while sleeping in a hotel each night. Finally got gas turned on, but had one, no – two, no – THREE gas leaks. And a saga with the cable company that was finally successfully resolved after I pulled out every single strand of that damn regrowth that comes after pregnancy. (Did you get those scraggly baby hairs sticking out all over the place?)

All right, somewhere in there we got settled in and my son FIGURED OUT HOW TO CRAWL and pull up, and started cutting molars. And for him, that meant, waking up ALL NIGHT LONG screaming and pounding his poor little fists. Then a week ago Saturday, he started vomiting. 10 times in 2 hours. Enough that our pediatrician’s office wanted us to take him to the hospital to make sure it wasn’t another bladder infection (he has had one before). Just a stomach flu. Oh, did I mention that the nanny was sick? We’d sent her home Friday because she had aches and a fever. (Flu?)

The baby got over his stomach bug pretty quickly but by Tuesday, my husband had a fever and aches and other odd symptoms that did not add up to a stomach flu or any kind of anything I’d ever heard of. The nanny was still not back at work so I was taking care of the baby and a sick husband and I don’t have to tell you which one was the bigger baby.

I was looking forward to Suzy’s return to work Wednesday when I woke up with a fever and aches and reflux and all the same weird stuff my husband had. Miraculously, I was all better by Thursday. Just in time, too, since my son’s 1 year birthday party was Sunday.

Friday was a blur of picking up last minute items, and getting ready for out-of-town relatives. Saturday, we took our niece to the American Girl Cafe which was a lot of fun and made me long for a little girl.

Then Sunday was the big party. It was a blast. The pinwheel theme worked out great and we had perfect 76 degrees and sunny weather. No major mishaps and no major illnesses.

In spite of all the insanity, my husband and I managed to laugh a lot and still feel very, very lucky we have a great relationship, a beautiful son, and wonderful family and friends. In other words, don’t let my grumbling fool ya’. I’m happier than I’ve ever been.

So that’s what’s been going on here. What’s new in your world?