Surveying The Damage
We took five days off for Christmas spent 4 of them running our asses off like crack addicted monkeys and then crashed hard the day after Christmas. I think I slept until 2 in the afternoon and went back to bed around 8pm.
The thing is, I’m STILL exhausted. I’m burned out. My mom had offered to send us on a trip right after Christmas and the way I am feeling right now, I couldn’t be more happy about turning her down on that one.
Christmas was quiet, low key and very quiet. I’d love to regale you with wonderful, warm, heart-felt stories, but quiet frankly, I’m at a complete loss. Just feel very relieved that I am not telling you all about how a certain unidentified child forgot three Christmas presents at home that were supposed to be taken to my mother’s on Christmas Eve, or how when a certain husband and son went home to retrieve the three presents they only came back with one, or how I ruined the monkey bread this year by trying to jazz it up with orange zest, or how I didn’t see my sister on Christmas Eve but she was kind enough to pop by for twenty minutes on Christmas day.
See what I’m saying? You aren’t missing out on much.
At the moment I have two twelve year old girls running amuck, a nearly 4 year old trying to keep up with them, a 16 year old who is currently stomping on my last nerve by playing the drums in the garage for hours on end, and a wicked case of heartburn complete with intermittent vurps. Not to mention that I am now back to work to try to tie up a few loose ends before embarking on another 4 days off where I will attempt to put together a birthday party for Maggie who turns 4 on New Year’s day.
Bring on the freakin’ New Year because this one, so far, is not ending on a particularly high note.
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August 24, 2007 @ 1:37 am
Oh yeah… fast forward is right!!! :-)
August 24, 2007 @ 3:09 am
Going on 20 years in September…took him a while, but I finally got him kind of trained. :whip:
August 24, 2007 @ 4:37 am
There was never any Honeymoon period years 1-3. It was straight on to “I don’t care for your tone of voice, so you get to sleep in the guest room tonight” with an icy smile and dead eyes.
August 24, 2007 @ 5:19 am
So… when are you coming to Florida for a few days?
August 24, 2007 @ 5:38 am
But he’s really sorry!
Or something.
August 24, 2007 @ 3:23 pm
I’m scared…someone hold me,
August 24, 2007 @ 5:37 pm
:tongue:
August 24, 2007 @ 11:17 pm
:doh: men. pfft.
August 25, 2007 @ 6:01 am
:rock: You totally ROCK! Loved this entry.
My husband won’t sleep on the couch ever…so I go in there and actually sleep really well.
Alone.
Just for a night.
I secretly love it!
August 25, 2007 @ 2:40 pm
So true. Thanks, Amy. I don’t feel so bad for having these thoughts too.
August 25, 2007 @ 6:32 pm
You’re right. You’re always right - LOL
August 27, 2007 @ 11:10 am
Make-up sex? That would involve him admitting that he was wrong in any way, shape, or form.
December 27, 2007 @ 3:22 pm
I’m with you. Let’s bring on 2008.
December 27, 2007 @ 4:24 pm
Think of it this way, you have 363 days til you get to do it all over again!
December 27, 2007 @ 7:17 pm
I’m sorry Christmas was not all that merry for you this time around. I have no doubt that the new year will bring great things.
December 27, 2007 @ 8:18 pm
I’m sorry but.. I can’t help but laugh cause I’m feeling the same way. IT’S ALL HYPE I TELL YA! :-)
Sophie’s doing another one of her marathon sleepovers and dammit, 3 days after Christmas and I’m STILL picking up wrapping paper shreds, bows, ribbons… ugh!
December 27, 2007 @ 10:11 pm
I think this holiday season sucked the life out of a bunch of us.
December 28, 2007 @ 4:08 am
Is it common for monkeys to get addicted to crack?
December 28, 2007 @ 8:36 am
I’m so glad Christmas is over :tongue:
December 28, 2007 @ 12:10 pm
Avi - Amen!
Trish - Do-overs are a good thing. Next year WILL be better.
Tense - You win some, you lose some, I suppose.
tj - Ha! OMG… it’s like our houses are mirror images of one another. LOL
Chickie - I think so too. It was just a strange year, wasn’t it?
Mr. Fab - It’s an epidemic that isn’t getting the level of media coverage that it really should. We should all be watching out for the monkeys!
Lisa - I am ashamed to admit it, but I really feel the same way this year. Gah!