girlymama

drop everything

Tonight my mother-in-law said, "Why don't you guys go out on a date while we watch the kids?"

We have so much work to do...

The house is a disaster...

The lawn needs mowing...

We're leaving for vacation soon...

I just showered and have wet hair and no make-up...

And I'm in my pajamas....

He just got home from a trip and hasn't unpacked...

Wait!

A impromptu date with my husband?

How often does that happen?

Are you kidding me?

Time out alone together?

This is awesome!

We're outta here!

ten years. in a blink.

Ten years ago today, I married the most amazing man...

 

I'm the luckiest girl in he world.

leaving is hard too

Please don't ever think that husbands who travel for work a lot have it easy. It’s so tempting. As we talked about earlier this week, its hard to feel sorry for him while he’s jetting around Europe, going to amazing restaurants, not to mention getting to sleep in a hotel room alone, getting a full night sleep while I'm stuck at home with the kids, eating cereal for dinner. 

But he's not on vacation. Not only is he super busy on his trips, usually coming home exhausted and  jet lagged, but he has to also deal with this while he's gone...

...they have to leave a lot behind. How would you like finding that someone snuck that into your suitcase? Or listening to your daughter's tears on the phone because she wants you to tuck her in and you're not there?

"We miss you Dad but I will see you soon and I love you"
And that's me, Colin, Ellie and Gracie crying at the closed front door.

Its hard for them as well. They miss us too.

revenge is sweet

Last week, my husband went to Florida. So I may or may not have gotten several snarky telephone calls about how gorgeous and sunny it was, how he wasn't wearing a jacket, blah blah blah.

Where did he have to go this week?

Montana.

Nice.

*****

My Christmas shopping is officially done!!! (Don't be too impressed - our first mini- Christmas is tomorrow, so I'm actually not done that early!)
I went to the King of Prussia Mall yesterday (for non-Philly folks, its one of the biggest malls in America). Its my own fault - I hate going to the mall at Christmas and I've been putting it off. So I bit the bullet.
After discovering that sometimes the mess your children make eating lunch is the car is not worth the time saved letting them eat in the car, I found a parking spot in the next zip code, wrestled a squirming, screaming Colin in his stroller and gave him a lollipop to keep him quiet, gave whiny Gracie a lollipop to keep her quiet and charged in.
The mall itself wasn't too bad, it was the stupid parking lot! It took me fifteen minutes to find a parking spot... and over half an hour to get out of the parking lot!! GRRRR.
But I'm done shopping! For awhile!

*****

So I tried my new Dyson (the D14) and... I hated it. I KNOW, right?! It was supposed to be super amazing!  But was super heavy and hard to maneuver. So I went online and decided to try the DC25 instead. Kohls let me return the first one (Love Kohls!) and I picked up the D25. And I LOVE IT!! LOVE IT LOVE IT!!! It has ruined me for other vacuums.
And let me share the conversation I had with my husband while we were putting the D25 together:
"Well, I was going to get you a Christmas present, but now you have your Dyson."
"WHAT? A vacuum cleaner does NOT count as a Christmas present!"
"A vacuum cleaner doesn't. But this isn't a vacuum cleaner. Its a Dyson."
Not sure I can argue with that one...

*****

Oh, don't forget to enter all of my giveaways this week!

K'NEX 400-piece tub and Sesame Street Collection Building Set
YoBaby gift set

i may never go home

Guess whose husband was all sneaky and sweet and upgraded her to FIRST CLASS?

That's right. MINE!

I'm off to enjoy getting spoiled....

the world is our oyster

Next year is our tenth (TENTH!) anniversary and Husband and I are looking into where we want to go away for a week!!! Hee hee hee!!!

He has a gazillion hotel and airplane points so we can pretty much fly and stay anywhere in the world. Fo' FREE. (There is a plus side to having a husband who travels all the time!!!)

Here are some of our ideas. Notice how they start to get crazier as we go down the list. That's how we roll.
Hawaii
Ireland or maybe Scotland
Costa Rica
Portugal
Malta
Italy
Tahiti
South Africa
Egypt

We're leaning towards Hawaii. (Not very imaginative, I know) But
1. We only have a week. Tahiti, for example, we would spend 3 days just traveling.
2. Some places, like Egypt or South Africa, are places that we might want to take the kids someday. So maybe we should wait on those?
3. Is a week enough to do Italy?

So you have two questions to answer here: Where do YOU think we should go? And what about you? If you could go anywhere for a romantic getaway, where would you go??

nine years ago today

 
i became the luckiest girl in the world.

anticipation.....

Tonight we're going out!

Without kids!!

On a double date!!!

With one our favorite couples!!!!

WITHOUT KIDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yippeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!

things i do that drive my husband crazy

Losing the phone. Occasionally losing both phones.

Say I'm going to do something. "Sure! That item is in the closet!"
Go to do it. "Let me get it before I forget."
Get completely distracted. "Wow! This closet sure is messy! Better reorganize it!"
Forget what I said I was going to do. "What do you mean where is the item I left to go get thirty minutes ago? What item?"

Never, ever getting the mail. (Its too cold to go get the mail!)

Empty the trash can, but forget to put a new trash bag in.

Leaving half-empty cups of coffee all over the place.

Let my car practically run out of gas because I really hate pumping gas. (Again... Cold!!)

Not answering  the phone. (See item #1)

Throwing away something that is recycleable because I'm too lazy/busy to take it outside to the recycle bin.

Cleaning and organizing his stuff. Then he can't find anything and I can't remember where I put it.

Forgetting to put the memory card back in the digital camera.

Requesting movies from Netflix, then taking forever to actually watch them.

Having conversations in my head. You know, where you think you talked to someone about something. But you actually only thought about talking to someone about something - you never actually did it.

What do you do that drives your husband crazy?

p.s. Husband is enjoying this post WAY too much. He keeps saying "You know what else you could add?"

happy fathers' day

to my sweetheart