It's Official, I'm Old

Right now it is seven thirty am and I am the only one in the house awake. When was the last time that happened? Since I had kids? Oh, never! Of course right now my kids are across the country while I am kicking it in LA, so that helps. Why you might wonder am I up at seven am then? That would be because I am OLD.

This morning I kept tossing and turning but was determined not to get up. After all, no kids = sleeping in. So I shut my eyes and fell back asleep three or four times until I allowed myself to look at the clock. I assumed it was around nine, yeah it was seven.

Friday when we got in, I valiantly stayed up until almost twelve (two am my time) but last night at ten thirty I was falling asleep on the couch. My body is just not used to this much activity: Brunch! Two hour urban hike (in flip flops)! Echo Park meandering! Two hour, four course Thai dinner! I was falling asleep on the sofa for about thirty minutes before I just gave it up and established that I was lame and going to bed.

This is all proving my theory that kids age you two years for every one. After all my friends are kidless and though older than me, look younger. There is nary a wrinkle to be seen on their faces. The first night we were here they stayed up until two in the morning with the husband looking up people on Facebook (they all went to college together) and A still got up for and attended a body sculpt class at nine. All I can think is, how in the hell are you doing this?

Sleep is all I crave these days. Vacations have become for sleeping. I am like an eighty year old, wanting to eat early and then go to bed. This is not inline with the husband since he thinks, rightly so, that vacations are for going out and living it up since we don't have to pay a babysitter. Evidently I am the only one who got old. Maybe it's breastfeeding, not kids.

Hopefully naps will be on the agenda in Hawaii because I can't pawn the husband off on friends there.

I Will Miss Them (but not too much!)

So tomorrow the husband and I leave on a trip to LA and Hawaii, thanks to Marriott (they still have three more trips to give away so what are you waiting for: http://www.marriotthawaiitweets.com/ ). I am in that pre-trip frenzy state where I am not only trying to get the last minute things together (finally going to sign those wills!) but also embarking on the all the unfinished projects I have around the house that I always, for some crazy reason, try to finish before I leave on a trip.

But really there isn't much left to be done. The house is unusually clean but will be cleaner when I get home since my pathologically clean MIL is coming to sit the girls (a post on that tomorrow!). I already packed my suitcase (did it last Sunday, who doesn't like packing for a trip to Hawaii) and the girls and I did a run to the grocery store this morning to stock up on their breakfast and lunch basics. The only thing left to do it hit the library.

We need to lead up on the picture books because the girls, who have always been top notch at being sat, have been exhibiting a lot of separation anxiety lately. Of course they would, how better to make even a mean mommy like me feel guilty as she lays on the sand and drinks blue lavas. They really are clever, those two. Not going is not even in the realm of possibility so I am picking up Llama Llama Misses Mama and The Kissing Hand and call it a day.

But just in case I start feeling bad between my massage and gourmet dinners (seriously, have you entered this contest yet?!) I decided to make a list of all the things I will not miss.

Things I Will Not Miss
-Calamity Jane shouting "Pawts!" (translation, "Put me on some Wonder Pets woman!") throughout the day
-Watching the Wonder Pets
-Desmonda Drama's exceptionally grumpy mood in the morning. I mean, it's perfectly understandable that she be grumpy after twelve hours of uninterrupted sleep but I do wish she would stop screaming at me after I have the audacity to serve her the milk she has been asking for since I removed her from the crib.
-Arguments over toys, why is any toy that your sister has always infinitely more interesting than the one you have?
-Struggling through Kindermusik
-Having to unload half my savings into the vending machine so the gym daycare will be tolerable anytime I want to work out (when I don't even WANT to work out)
-Making the bed, clearing the dishes, and generally being clean so my kids don't live in filth
-Listening to Desmonda screech at the dog who has been around since she was born but is suddenly terrifying. I mean what's more terrifying than a five and a half pound daschund chihuahua mix, right?
-Getting up between six thirty and seven every morning

Yep, I will miss their cute little faces but isn't that what pictures are for?

Abandoned Already

So my poor little blog was abandoned for a couple of weeks. but for good reasons, really!

-My SIL came to visit
-I won a trip to Hawaii
-The girls and I went off to Dallas for my sister's baby showers
-I took a girls trip
-And after two weeks I am halfway into a ten hour car ride home solo with the terror twins

But all of the above is some good blog fodder so there is much to look forward to here in my headspace spilled onto the internet. Including:

-Southern Alpha Moms and Why I Will Never Move Back to Dallas
-I Think I Love My Husband, No Really
-Why Mom Friends Are Better Than Any Baby Product, Even Status Strollers
-Hate Air Travel? Try It Post Kids.
-I'm Not Raising My Kids, I Am Raising My Parents Grandchildren

and if we make it home tomorrow...
-Why My Kids Are Lucky That I Love Them More Than My New Car

See you soon!

Love,
Me