Little M. just completed his second year of swimming lessons and he has come along beautifully in the water. He was scared to death that Aunt L. was going to make him jump off the diving board, but when the time came to do it, he jumped without looking back. Now it's his favorite thing to do!
These lessons came just in time to prepare him for the insanity that is our family vacation this week. We leave tomorrow for the Great Wolf Lodge in the Wisconsin Dells. We got a good deal on a family suite and to say the boys are THRILLED would be the greatest understatement ever uttered on this blog. I, as usual, have my trepidations that we'll be able to get along and function as a "happy family" and return with all of our sanity intact. I'm hoping this trip will go better than usual, because we are going there and staying there...no sight-seeing, no dragging the kids to things we think they'd like but it turns out they don't, no big expectations aside from swimming and playing in the arcade to their hearts' content...and that's pretty much what they want to do. Mr. EM and I have armed ourselves heavily with reading material, it appears that we might actually be able to RELAX on this vacation a little bit. I'm starting to let my guard down and get a little excited about it myself!
Something else we did right was we sent the boys to stay with MIL for the last few days, giving us a little time alone together. It's hard for us to get couple-time in the summer and it wears on us both. Mr. EM has to get up really early for work during the summer, 4:45 am. I, on the other hand, sleep most mornings until around 7:00 and the boys get up even later than me. By the time we finish dinner most nights, Mr. EM is ready for bed and the rest of us...well, we're not. It's kind of like he's living totally separate from us and we all miss him and he misses us and it makes everyone a little edgy. So, he had some vacation he had to use before July 1st and he took a good chunk of it here at the end of June. The boys got some quality time with him, then he drove them to his mom's and I got some quality time with him. It's been heavenly...we've been staying up late, sleeping late, eating junk food, watching whatever we want on TV, hanging out with friends, going out to dinner, having sex in the middle of the afternoon...just doing whatever we want, whenever we want. It's been like taking a trip back to the first year of our marriage. We needed that.
So, gentle readers, I bid you adieu. Here's hoping you all have a lovely week, I'll check in next weekend!
2 comments:
God, I hope you fed each other strawberries or some such thing on your days together. I find that doing all those mushy things actually does feel pretty good@
Have a great vacation!
That's my favorite kind of road trip - go somewhere and relax there. Reading material, naps, and I'm set.
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