...Glad as I could be"
Ok it is only tuesday. Aaron has left town before many many times...especially when we lived in Green Bay...but for some reason this time around has been a nightmare! The reason? Reese is temporarily crazy. And by crazy i mean CRAAAAZY...like the kind of crazy where you would use a silly voice to say crrrrrraaazy. I've heard many times that it is hard on the kids when dad goes out of town, but it has never really been a problem for us (well, except when Aaron would forget to tell me he was leaving and then would wake me up at 3 am needing a haircut and a ride to the airport and it would be -6 degrees outside and we had a sleeping newborn...yes, THAT was a problem, but we've put an end to that. All it took was one REALLY bad haircut, and a taxi cab) but this week I see why people say it is hard on the kids. Forget that! What they SHOULD be sayin' is that it is hard on the MOM. Reese actually BIT my cheek in sacrament meeting on sunday. Why? Oh that would be because she has been CRAZY since saturday...like CRAZY crazy. For those of you who know my sweet nephew tyler...it's like an on-vacation-sleep- deprived-tyler-after-10-suckers-on-christmas-morning kind of crazy. I am coping alright, but every now and then Reese and Quincy play tag-team and gang up on me (like in church, or at lunch today..there is nothing like a tantrum in a restaurant. And of course, my friends' children are all sitting angelically so I am the only one with out of control kids) and that is when i start to panic. I think my favorite part of church on sunday was when i took reese potty, and she slipped in a puddle on the bathroom floor, smacked her head on the toilet and after i finally calmed her down and helped her onto the toilet to pee, she leaned back to watch and the pee went clear out over the toilet and down the front of my new dress. Luckily Quincy had fallen asleep by this point, so I wasn't holding her or she would have been peed on! I want to emphasize that I love my daughters madly, but i have never been so happy to see nursery leaders and a bag of My Little Pony fruity snacks as I was sunday afternoon. I am hoping a good night's sleep will help the problem and Reese will wake up a happy, new person.
Goodbye Butterflies
12 years ago
5 comments:
Oh I feel for you! Robby's had to leave town twice since Lucy's been born (but not as long as your hubby--only two nights at a time) so I really don't know how you do it! And kudos on going to church by yourself--it pretty much takes two of us to pin Jonah down in the pew.
And what really gets me is that I would pay mega bucks to leave by myself and stay in a hotel and eat out and socialize with ADULTS as part of my "job". But I guess you can't have everything. And the pee on your new dress was classic!
awww i wish i had 2 little girls who were ALL mine ALL the time...you are so blessed Meg-o.
feel free to come out to visit...aaron and i will go for a date and reese and quincy can be all yours to spoil for the night! we do love visitors...
Amen Meg! Joel leaves for a week next week and I am terrified! You are not alone!
Oh Meg, I feel your pain--almost five months of weekend only daddy here. Pee on the new dress while alone with 3 kids at church here. The joys of traveling husband motherhood.
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