A HORRIBLE MOM MOMENT!!!!

We woke up Sunday morning and decided we were going to go to the Brunch at the Atrium at The Cliff Lodge at Snowbird because we had read that the brunch was suppose to be absolutely fabulous. We got ready... everyone dressed up... looked nice. Grace had her cute little red, white, and blue dress on and her cowboy boots. Mac was in his r/w/b outfit from his birthday. Well we head down there about 9:00 and are ready to eat. Grace tells me a couple times that her belly is hurting but I think that it is just that she doesn't want to eat and she wants to go swimming so I told her she had to eat a little bit and then we would go swimming.

We get to the Brunch and we find out that the main Brunch does not start until 10:30. UGH!!! What are we going to do for an hour and a half. Well we just walk around. We saw most of the resort, found the convenience store, walked outside, looked at the little river running through the place... I think that only took up 45 minutes. So we just sat and waited. I should have noticed something about Grace and how she was sort of fussy but like I said earlier I thought she was trying to get out of eating.

We FINALLY brunch comes. We get our table and when they are finally ready to serve I go first because I want to get the kids food so they can sit down and get eating and then Don and I can relax... NOT SO. Grace takes about two bites of food and throws up. One thing you need to know is that Grace has been known in the past to throw up on cue when she didn’t want to eat, when she wanted attention after Mac was born, or when she put too much food in her mouth. (I blame this on the ICU doctors but that is a subject of another blog). Mortified, not believing that she is doing this while on vacation I clean everything up and take it to the garbage and well… we stay. We believe she is playing with us. So Don gets his food and then I get in line… Grace comes with me… She keeps telling me her belly hurts and I told her that she was not going to start this like she use to do… What happens, you guessed it, we get back to the table and she just throws up everywhere. Serves me right. God I felt like a horrible Mom. People are looking at me. I don’t know how many people’s brunch I ruined. I felt like it was all my fault. Don was very helpful taking the kids to the room and I sat at the table trying to hold back the tears because I was both embarrassed and feeling like a really bad mom!!! I paid the bill, they actually let me take a carry out so that Don and I could eat something… $60 later we had had one plate of food. UGH!!

I got to the room and we put both the kids down for a nap, Don and I took a nap, and well when we woke up we thought everyone was doing ok. It did cross my mind though that maybe she had altitude sickness. I called my cousin Tracey because I knew that her daughter Mattie had the same problem, and well it sounded like what we were dealing with.

When Grace woke up she said she was feeling ok but still didn’t want to eat. So we thought it might be a good idea to take her down to a lower altitude. So we headed down to Salt Lake City. I really wanted to go and she the temple and go to the family research place, and all the sites available. There was also a place called the Gateway that was left over from the Olympics and we thought that it might help her feel better.

As we started down the hill she saw 7 – 11 and Grace actually said she wanted a Slurpie so we decided that we would get her one. Well she got about half of it down and she gave the rest to Mac. Oh boy… what a mess the sweet child made!!! But she was acting like she was feeling better so we kept going.

We went to the Gateway and we were going to go shopping there and then head off to the little water show that they have there and then head to the Temple. Well it was the hottest day of the year in SLC and well we got about 20 feet from the car and Grace got SICK. At least I had brought Don’s empty Slurpie cup so we were able to deal with this moment a little bit better. Well we packed up, got in the car, and drove around the sites but didn’t stop. In the car we had a couple more episodes but the poor thing had nothing left to get out of her belly and she just wanted to get back to the hotel.

With Grace being sick and Mac enjoying his first Slurpie our car was a mess, but I really thought I should go to the grocery store and get some plain foods for her and hope that this sickness will go away.

We got Grace and Mac ready for bed but only moments after getting out of the tub poor Gracie was sick again, and again, and again. She finally just took herself into the bathroom and lay on the floor on towels. Every tile we had was dirty with sickness, the room just smelled. I felt so bad for the girl and Don was just great through it all. He took care of Mac and just left Grace and me to the bathroom.

She was up until 3:30 with the dry heaves and finally holding her tight I got her to go to sleep and relax.

What a night. Monday could only get better.