Today was a little crazy around here. No different really than the last 5-6 weeks have been so made sense to me in most ways.
Today was a reflection of our chaotic out of control spring madness.
Owning a country home is amazing but it’s also a hell of a lot of work. Especially that we can’t afford to pay anyone to help us there clean, or garden, or fix things or mow lawns. So that is two homes to take care of. And a huge move to a new office that we now take care of too. Have we gone mad?
As soon a summer or winter rolls around I never regret this stuff. It’s worth every single minute, but for the moment it’s a ton of crappy work to do.
So here was my mother’s day:
A huge weekend of cleaning and work. 16 hrs for me and 16 hours for Hubby. 4 hrs for each kid
We also each did 20 hours each at city house last weekend.
15 hours me for office weekend before and Hubby about 1 million hours.
Ay 9pm last night we went out for a big and fancy dinner that we had a coupon for and the two gourmets ate all the escargots and Carpaccio and foie gras and we three non-gourmets ate spaghetti and tried to save a bit of money.
We literally all fell into bed
Until A bear came at 3:30 and started barfing up escargot
And because we don’t have bathroom in basement he had nowhere to sleep and barf simultaneously
So he just “slept” with me and barfed most the night
And Hubby “slept” on the couch
Not a whole lot of sleeping going on in our house lately.
But as crazy as this sounds I loved my night. Each time he would get up he would come back and gently touch my face; and apologize for being sick on mothers’ day, and was just so darn sweet. He wished me happy mothers day every hour from 4am-9am.
I love that kid to bits I tell ya.
Then in the morning everyone came into our barfy bed and gave me gifts. Chase too!!!! And Beauty her beautiful gift certificates and card and Bear made me a video!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A movie of all our travel pics with captions and music-he worked a zillion hours and my heart melted and it was the best gift ever. They all were. I love my family.
(I was kind of happy they gave me anything as the day before I screamed at them a lot and called them all little idiots very loudly because they were not helping enough and because my period is 4 days away)
It’s not all roses and flowers people
My husband gave me an -I phone stand for car and a waterproof phone case so I can safely bring my phone on the boatJ
So than I cleaned and cleaned and cleaned. So did hubby. All day long.
And Bear and Beauty made me a surprise brunch and it was sooooooo yummy. They have their Dad’s genes for cooking that is certain. And Chase happily ate it and cleaned it all up.
And then we just had a normal crazy day. Some tummy aches, some fighting, some laughing, some hyperness and lots and lots and lots of cleaning.
We came home and had a silly dessert with my Mom and took some silly pictures all together. Gave kisses and that was it.
It was just life. My life. A bit chaotic. A bit out of control lately. And very busy.
So Mothers Day this year was really good just like my life. I am learning to roll with the punches and lately my punches are sleepless nights with a whole bunch of sick kids coming into my room for whatever reason.
And a whole lot of cleaning going on in between.
The kids kept telling me they felt sorry for me that my weekend was all about cleaning when I should be celebrating and doing something special instead. I kept reaffirming to them that I was fine and that holidays although fun are not even half as important to me as all the days in between. I still think these holidays are a bit whacky…it’s all the rest of the days that count most for me..although being a little spoiled certainly felt great too.
I leave tomorrow for 5 days on a business trip. I was looking forward to doing some blogging at night. But likely I won’t because I forgot my computer at the cottage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Can I blog on an ipad? I can’t seem to figure it out.
So if you don’t hear from me for a number of days-know I miss you-and I am reading you-and I love you.
I promise to get back to you soon with a purple hair and swearing continuation. Trust me I don’t want these things… or even tolerate them very well…they just are not make or break for me. More later..
Maybe it’s time to stick my nose into a yummy new book since won’t be blogging much?
Happy Mother’s Day to me.
