it’s your best friend after an emergency root canal. i’ll spare you the details but here’s a basic break down of the past week.

*wednesday-school’s out for summer-woot! mommy is sleeping in people
*thursday-prep for friday and saturday weddings and rock out the first day of summer
*Friday-wake up, shower, ready to get out the door for last minute errands and preparation for the 2 weddings only to discover i’ve locked my keys in the car. yea, i rock like that.  wait around for 2 hours waiting for pop-a-lock dude to get here and then spend the a.m. frantically trying to shop for a couple new outfits for the weekend, pick up a couple lenses i needed, pick up a cake for brooklyn’s end of the year brownie party and pack my entire family for the weekend getaway to houston.
*get everything done with 1 hour to spare….enough time to shower for lindsay and logan’s wedding and head out to start the festivities.
*wedding was awesome. so fun. so emotional. promise to post pictures when i’m not high on vicodin…..getting to that in a minute.
*make it home sometime after 1am.
*sleep for a few hours.

*Saturday-wake up, finsih packing, dress 3 kids and one husband…ok he dressed himself but barely. piled in the car headed for houston. stop and grab breakfast, eat…..and FREAK OUT! my toothe suddenly feels like someone is grinding an icepick into it. 2 hours into the trip we stop for tylonal at a gas station where i almost beg a trucker to cut every one of my teeth out of my head so i never experience this pain again. instead, i pop the tylonal and grab some water. make it to houston w/ 2 hours until i have to be ready to shoot another wedding. check into the hotel, curl up into a ball on the bed and groan. that lasts 15 minutes until i have to shower and get ready to leave. kiss my family goodbye and directing mark to do nothing else before he goes and finds me something to take for this pain…..go downtown houston and find some crack for all i care. i want it to go away.
*put on a happy face, triple up on extra strength tylonal and meet david and ashley from barron and barron and get ready to shoot the sensational wedding of Chad Hedrick and Lynsey Adams.
*manage to make it through the day/night….the only thing that got me through was sweet ashley and a room full of beautiful people, one of the most touching and emotional ceremonies i’ve ever witnessed and one rockin’ party afterwards.
*stumble into the hotel room sometime after 1am.
*sleep for a few hours.

*Sunday-wake up feeling as if i’ve been hit by a truck. every inch of my body aches….and oh, yea that toothe. by this time i’ve not eaten since breakfast on saturday morning and i’m starving. i force my family out of bed so we can get to the nearest place that serves anything remotely ediable. i eat. and i regret it almost instantly. we quickly realize our nice family trip to the beach, nasa and the boardwalk are going to have to be postponed as we head back to san antonio so i can get into my rockstar dentist.

*Monday-1:30- root canal. nothing else matters at this point.

*Tuesday-vicodin, antibiotics, a trip to the pediatrician for hudson who is having problems w/ his asthma AGAIN, more vicodin, a nice leisurely couple hours by the pool, a nap, a husband that comes home and cooks and takes care of me while i groan some more. between him and the vicodin i’m lovin’ life…..

even with a root canal.

promise to post pictures tomorrow……hoping to make it through the day w/out meds and pain free!