It won’t be so hard with my husband out of town, right?!
Okay..so my husband is in Prague for work…for a month. I can handle this. I am still trying to manage working after a six year hiatus, but I can handle this! Yesterday was a disaster…my kids were out of control (think smelling each other’s rear ends and using an entire container of shaving cream in the bath until the entire room was covered). As I poured my glass of wine (okay it was not my first of the night), I thought what would I do if my husband was here? Tell him to come help? Get in my car and come back in a few hours? Lock myself in my room? No chance here…just me and….THEM!. How is your day going????
I feel your pain! LOL! I am a single mom… so its sort of like my husband went out of town never to return..(which I asked for..but anyway!) So every night in my house is pretty much exactly what you described there! Just a few nights ago my kids were totally off the wall. My son wouldn’t stop yelling that my daughter farted. And my daughter was crying and going wild because she didn’t fart. He wouldn’t stop saying it and she wouldn’t stop freaking out. And me? Well I found myself fantasizing about running up the street in the freezing cold screaming…I don’t know what just anything really…. Well I didn’t have the breakdown, although the fantasy was quite liberating…:)
you poor thing. how are you holding up now? i have twin 4 year old boys and a 3 year old daughter.. i’m frazzled when my husband is gone for 2 nights. another wine run?
How funny!! I have two active boys, 4 and 9, and my husband is often out of town. As a military spouse, this is old hat to me. I try to concentrate on the “Me Time” aspect of things. I can watch Anderson Cooper in bed without disturbing a sleeping hubby. I can even drag my laptop into bed and be comfy as I do some leftover work from the day.
“Seize the teeth!” as Robin Williams says in Mrs. Doubtfire. Enjoy the moment and think of it this way: it’s only a month. Many of my buddies have dealt with much longer deployments. They would welcome only one month.
(I wish I had a business trip to ANYWHERE some days!!) LOL