Road trip, coming soon to an Earth Muffin near you!

I've been too busy to blog these days. Work is crazy and either Mr. EM or I or both of us have had stuff going on after work every day for the past two weeks. Little M.'s birthday wound up being a 4-celebration affair, for crying out loud. There's been yard work to be done, a house to be cleaned, meals to be prepared and children to be tended to. Life has become exhausting and the Mr. and I agree that we need a vacation.

So we're taking one!

On Friday morning we are seeing Big M. off on his bus, then we are dropping Little M. off at Super Sitter's and then we are heading to North Carolina for my college friend, H.'s, 40th birthday party! Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

It's going to be a pretty quick trip and much of it will be spent on the road, due to expensive-ass flights. I don't care. I miss spending time alone with my man and 12 hours there and back, just us in a car with an iPod, sounds absolutely heavenly. We haven't taken a road trip of this magnitude since before we were married. We'll get into our hotel sometime Friday night, the party is on Saturday, Sunday we'll hang with H. and her husband (Mr. EM's far-away BFF) for a while and then hit the road again, driving halfway. Monday we'll hit the home stretch, pick up the boys and collapse into bed just in time for work on Tuesday.

It may sound a little crazy to do all that driving for a very, very, very short vacation, but we don't care. We need it, so we're doing it. And I can't flipping wait!

The M.'s will be with my parents on Friday and Saturday night, then Super Sitter is going to take them camping with her family on Sunday. They are thrilled beyond belief. They feel like they're getting a vacation too...and I guess they are. Win-win situation, gentle readers!

So, that's what's going on around here.

Oh yeah, and I just started read the first book in the Sookie Stackhouse series, Dead Until Dark. This is the series that the HBO show, True Blood, is based on. It's fluff, to say the least, but it's kick-ass fluff. It's Twilight for adults and that's just the kind of thing I need to shut my mind off to stress. If you're into hot vampires, check it out. (And thanks for the recommendation, EBM and Katie!)