Enough Already.

If you asked me earlier in the week I would have refused to even think about tomorrow, or the very idea of vacation ending.

‘Lo what a difference a few days makes.

Today is just the end of a long, frustrating week, and I think that it is really just time for everyone to head on back to school, or work, or wherever it is they belong.

On Monday I finally convinced J. to traverse out to the Lamps Plus Outlet & Warehouse. Since we need lighting in virtually every single room in our house, we really need to go on a bit of a lighting spree. This outlet is supposed to be pretty great…lots of open box stuff and discontinued stuff for cheap. Notice how I said “supposed to be?” Yeah, I called to get the hours and make sure they were open (it was Jan. 2nd, mind you, the day after New Year’s) and the phone message and website said nothing about being closed. You can so see where this is going, right? Fifty miles later, we pulled into an empty parking lot and J. just said, “oh, baby.” And Addie pipes up with “we came all the way here for nothing?”

Grrr. Yes, for nothing. Although J. did say “I will not be coming out here again, you can just get whatever you want.” That kinda sounds like carte blanche to buy whatever I find, doesn’t it? So he can’t complain when he doesn’t like it, right?

Tuesday we headed to Disney for a little mini-vacation. We planned on staying at the Grand Californian so we could hang and see the nighttime festivities that we don’t usually get to see. And then, Gracie got really sick. Early in the afternoon she started to get that glassy-eyed, feverish look. So J. took her back to the hotel and they ended up hanging there. On the plus side, I got to spend an afternoon with just Addie. We rode whatever she wanted to, and it was a nice chance for some one-on-one time with her.  We grabbed a little dinner and then J. took Addie out and they had some time, while I hung with Em in the hotel room. She went to bed around 6:30 and pretty much slept til 8 am the next morning.

Wednesday morning she popped up and claimed to be feeling “much better.” So our friends came down to join us and we made it through lunch and a few rides when the fever hit yet again. J. ended up taking Gracie home, and the rest of us stayed for a few more hours and tried to make it worthwhile for our friends. It ended up being fine, but it was just not how we had planned it going down.

Thursday we spent a quiet day at home mostly hoping to get Em all back to normal for Friday. Friday the girls were having a sleepover at Uncle Jeff and Aunt JBs and Mommy and Daddy were having a much needed date night! Yeah, well Friday afternoon Em took a 3-hour nap and it was pretty clear that we couldn’t pawn her off on poor Jeff and JB. Sooo…no sushi and movie for Mom and Dad.

I know it isn’t Gracie’s fault she was sick, but her “8-going-on-16″ attitude lately is her fault, and enough to drive me over the edge. In retrospect, none of these frustrations are very large in the greater scheme of things, I mean boo hoo hoo, right? But, it is just enough already. I’ve possibly never said this before but…I’m excited for Monday.

One thought on “Enough Already.

  1. I think I could have written this post. I know excatly how you feel. We have been battling some major funk over at our house. Not a great start to 2012. I hope Em is feeling better and you guys get your date night soon.

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