I made a mistake.
I made a BIG mistake.
I made a BIG rookie mistake.
Yesterday in my steam-coming-out-of-my-ears-push to do all things domestic and get ready to leave town, I didn't put the boys down for a nap. What was I thinking? Come on. No nap? It started as if I don't put them down for a nap, maybe they will fall asleep sooner in the car and sleep a little while longer before getting to Mimi's house and thus making the transition from sleeping to seeing-Mimi-and-Peepaw-waking better. Obviously this didn't happen.
While my laundry list of things to do included finishing, folding and putting away 5 loads of laundry; cleaning the bathroom; dusting the house; vacuuming (because we doesn't relish in coming home to a pine-sol, soft scrub, pledge smelling house?); removing all road-side bombs from the backyard; picking up the backyard so that if a stray neighbor were to pop his head over our fence he would be amazed at how tidy my kids keep things and thus deduct that I have the best dedication for teaching my kids the art of picking up; removing all trash from my house (again for smelling reasons); AND THEN packing for our 6 hour trip. I had some things to get done. I foolishly thought that by keeping my children awake I could 1) get things done without waking them since some of the things needing to be done would wake them and 2) I was still thinking about that 6 hour trip looming over our heads. Rookie.
So they stayed awake.
And then graced us with a look at their tonsils all thru 281 S.
We did however have some brief moments of solitude when listening (us)/watching (them) to "Monsters Inc.," "Wall-E," "Dumbo," and "The Little Mermaid." Have I mentioned that I LOVE our portable DVD player? So we made it in at 12:02 am and the boys finally got put in bed about 12:30 am but not before Tyson had a full on tantrum because he wanted to "stay up till morning." Ha! Silly rabbit, Tricks are for kids!
09 April 2009
Rookie
Somehow written by --> Me and My Boys at 9:15 AM
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3 comments:
We clean before vacations too. It's nice because we always seem to forget and then it's a nice surprise when you come home to a clean house! (Our kids don't sleep in the car when we want them too either).
I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who's kids freak out when I try to do something nice (like let them skip naps one day). I had to do the packing thing too (for 18 days!). I thought my head might roll off from all the thinking about onesies, socks, pants, jackets, pj's, blah, blah, blah in two sizes. I'm convinced I'll have this packing for a group of people thing down (probably when they go off to college!). See you soon!
Why is it that I can fall asleep within 5 minutes in the car, but my kids can stay awake for the entire 5 hour trip? Amazing. Glad you made it down there safely!
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