fridays

It seems by the end of the week i'm making the time to get on here. Weather is finally getting and hopefully staying nice and warm. Birthdays have begun. Love that it starts with mine. And so comes extra craziness. We also have school ending and our summer vacation to plan. Not sure that having our time share week be the week right after school ends was such a good idea but it's too late now. Looking forward to the trip. Not the planning and packing for everyone in my house but my husband. Just part of my job as mom right? We are going for two weeks this year and going to Disneyworld. With some extended family. That makes planning above and beyond what it usually is. Last year we just went and the plan was hang out at the timeshare complex and do all they had to offer. That was the best. No set time to go anywhere or do anything, thats a real vacation right? Think we should do it that way more often. I've got lists of rides at each park, best places to eat, cheapest, what robs mom will be able to do, what we're going to try to do each day all running through my head. In addition to all the normal day to day stuff. So much fun. There was a great Zits comic in the paper the other day. The teenage boy starts off complaining about why his mom has to share every thought in her head with him. Of course she answers he's not, he's just getting the highlights. The kid comments, "O'hare, Atlanta, and Heathrow all in one skull" Dad agrees yup a lot of traffic up there. It is just sooo damn true. Keeping track of everything in the house, with four kids and all their own issues and three animals, and a husband, all the house stuff in itself, like laundry and grocery lists and what we need at all time if i'm ever in the right store and have the money. And work stuff and friends you want to make sure to keep in touch with and emails and i could just go on and on and on. There is way too much going on up there at all times. My husband works during the day, i work nights and weekends so ideally one of us is home with the kids. Of course this doesn't always happen when the kids have their own stuff going on now so they have to watch each other sometimes and of course if my husband runs late or has meetings and can't make it home before i have to leave. I cannot remember it all. Yes i know there are certain days he usually has meetings but by the end of the school year the schedule has gone out the window. Every night before bed I go over in my head whats going on the next day and what needs to be done and who goes where and all that so i have it all straight and know how the days going to go. On nights i don't do it i wind up being surprised the next day. I had a horrible toothache the night before last i could barely get to sleep much less think about the next day. At five o'clock yesterday when my husband didn't get home yet it dawns on me it may be a late day and the kids will be on their own for a bit as i need to leave for work in half an hour. Yes I also didn't work thursdays most of the schoolyear so I didn't have to think about when the kids would be on their own. Disney is coming and we need the cash. So of course when i get my husband on the phone he thought i knew. Just a little reminder the day before, the day of, without my asking would be very helpful. Its exhausting always asking and keeping track. a little help would be nice. maybe theni'd sleep a little better too...