Disappointments

Last Saturday was our 5 year anniversary. I booked us a sitter (our regular sitter wasn't available) a month in advance to make sure we would be able to go out. The plan was for me to put the baby down for the night as usual between 7-7:30 pm and have her put Liam to bed. She was supposed to arrive at 6:30 pm. She was a no-show. No call, no text, nothing! A similar thing happened to us a few weeks ago when I was supposed to go to a back-to-school night at Liam's new preschool and Scott had an important business dinner. That girl (who has sat for us many times before) was a no-show as well. I was actually worried that something bad happened to them. Later found out through other people that they were both just fine. They just didn't have the common courtesy to let me know they weren't going to make it. I know they are young (19,20 years old) but seriously, if I had pulled something like that I would have gotten into so much trouble from my parents. I wasn't raised this way and it is sad to find so many are being raised this way. So we never got to go out for our anniversary.

I had also been sick for the two weeks prior and wasn't feeling that great that day but decided I would make the most of it. But never got the chance to.

Fast forward to yesterday, my birthday. I turned 33 yesterday. It was a pretty crappy day. Our sitter had been out with the pink-eye and so I never got to have a special day. Luckily, hubby did one nice thing - surprised me with my favorite Chinese for dinner. Of course we never got to actually eat it together because the kids were needing stuff like they always do.

And last night Liam wasn't feeling well and Aiden wasn't feeling well and so today we took them to the doctor (I told Scott there was no way I'm taking two sick kids to the doctor on my own on so little sleep). So my two precious boys have Strep. This is Aiden's 2nd Strep in his not yet 9 months of life and he's already had 2 ear infections as well. This sucks! So Liam is home tomorrow as well and it's Aiden's well appointment tomorrow. He'll go to it but no vaccines for him! SO tomorrow will be fun with having the two at home again. This afternoon I was trying to nurse the baby on the sofa and Liam kept trying to push him off of me. LOVELY! So Liam was crying and the baby was crying. It was fun!

Children really cramp your style sometimes, that's all I have to say! I love my children to death. Really, I would do anything for them. But sometimes I just want to run away and hide from it all. Of course, usually, my hiding is over after a 5 minute bathroom break (I don't always get to go alone either) but I still day-dream about some island with drinks with little umbrellas (though I don't actually like to drink) and well, the rest is not for sharing

But, on the plus side, a few nights ago I got 6 straight hours of sleep. This was a first since Liam, my first child, was born. Mind you, he is almost 3 years old so it's been a long time coming. Of course the nights after that sucked, but at least I have those 6 straight hours that I got that one time to live on.

Ok, I gotta go clean up the mess the kids made today. Yay for me!