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May 12, 2008
But how will we survive the summer?
Rex redeemed himself on Mother's Day this year. Then he left me alone with three kids while he jetted off to California.
Last year I was pissed not because Rex didn't get me anything, but because he didn't help the girls do something for me. Hell, he didn't even remind them to say Happy Mother's Day. I wasn't mad about the stuff, but because he didn't teach the girls that I'm important.
This year, he let them pick what they wanted to do, and helped them make it. They painted flower pots, and planted seeds for beautiful flowers that they picked out. Jamie brought home a photo album filled with pictures of her year at preschool, and Katie gave me a CD case with a picture, handprint and poem inside. And I got Sonic for breakfast. A vanilla Coke goes a long way towards forgiveness.
Also, all three kids napped. At the same time. I'm not telling the girls, but I think that may have been the best gift.
Now I have to come up with ways to keep the girls occupied and me sane. I'm not sure why an extra two and a half hours a day is so hard to push through, but by bedtime, I'm a shrew. I suspect it has more to do with juggling Owen than having the kids on my own for a week. After all, I used to do this a couple weeks a month, and it wasn't all that difficult. The good news is that adding him into our lives can only get easier as he gets older,
Posted by me at May 12, 2008 10:22 PM