My brother used to say that the main problem with having three kids was that you could never get them to agree to anything. It was actually his selling point as to why you should not have a third child. You can usually get one of the kids to be pretty gung ho about whatever activity you are planning on undertaking, you can convince a second kid that it's going to be fun, but that third kid is no way in hell going to do that. Most of the time that theory is completely correct, but sometimes all it takes is two.
This weekend Charlie took Andy to L.A. for a belated birthday trip, so it was just the girls and me (Mom, I wanted so badly to write "me and the girls" just now, but all I could picture was you shaking your head and wondering where you went wrong in instilling good grammar in me - you're always in my head). This was similar to but nothing like last weekend where both girls were under the weather and all they wanted to do way lie on me all weekend. It's amazing how Charlie is the fun one and they are all about him except when they don't feel well and want to smother me with their hot, feverish bodies and cough into my face. Anyway, I have learned a fantastic lesson from Charlie which is just because one of us goes out of town doesn't mean the rest of us have to suffer. Meaning, whenever I go out of town he does all this fun stuff with the kids so he doesn't have to sit at home and do nothing with them (which is torture in itself) so this weekend I decided to do the same.
Spring break started on Friday (because two weeks isn't enough, they have to add one more day to the beginning) so Sarah was off from school. I dropped her at Amanda's school, which we often do when Sarah has the day off and Amanda doesn't, and got in 9 miles on the treadmill at the gym. Believe me, this was key to wearing me out and giving me more patience for the weekend. After school we went home for lunch and then went to the movies. I really wanted to take the girls to "Muppets: Most Wanted", but Sarah wanted to see "The Lego Movie" because I had taken just Andy a few weeks ago and then after looking at the trailers she decided on "Mr. Peabody and Sherman", which was awesome. We didn't consult Amanda because all she really cared about was whether or not she was going to get candy, but she was a little confused and about an hour into the movie asked me where the Legos were.
Yesterday we hung out for a few hours in the morning and then went to Amanda's speech therapy make-up session since I completely forgot to take her on Tuesday for no good reason whatsoever, then we headed to the mall for lunch and some shopping. It wasn't until we got there and I couldn't find anywhere to park and once we got inside it looked like the same amount of people that are at the mall on Black Friday that I remembered why I never go to the mall on the weekends. Way too many people. That's the joy of being someone who doesn't work, you can go places when nobody else has time to go there. But I did go to the mall with two crazy, hyper little girls for several hours and we survived. They got Build-a-Bears which Amanda paid for with her own money and Sarah cashed in a sticker chart and that made the whole trip tolerable for them. I got a new dress that looks AMAZING on me (even if I don't really have anywhere to wear it) so all in all it was a win-win for everybody.
Today we got out of the house a little early before swimming and made a stop at Wal-Mart because I had to buy some color run remover for a shirt that was molested in the wash by another shirt. Not pretty. I absolutely hate going to Wal-Mart, especially with the girls. That place is so packed with stuff everywhere that it is over-stimulating for them and they have to touch and look at everything. There is no such thing as a 5-minute trip to Wal-Mart. On top of that they convinced me to buy a lot of candy that we don't need but will be helpful on our flight to San Diego on Wednesday which I will be taking alone with the kids because Charlie will be in Las Vegas on business and is meeting us there. The only positive thing that came out of the Wal-Mart trip is I got our cascarones (hollow eggs filled with confetti) for Easter. I will give props to Wal-Mart for always having cascarones at Easter time.
After swimming we hit Home Depot for some light bulbs because not a day goes by where we don't have at least one can light burn out in our house. We're pretty sure there is some weird electrical wiring problem in our house that makes it hate can lights. I offered the girls hot dogs for lunch on the way out and it was the easiest and cheapest thing we did the entire weekend. Plus, I didn't have to feed them when we got home. We topped the weekend off with a viewing of "Frozen", which I bought on Tuesday and was waiting for the perfect two hour time period to pop that sucker in and sit quietly on the couch. Done. Now I will have to listen to it in the car for the next few months on end, but I'm good with that.
So overall, not a horrible weekend, just a lot of negotiating to get everybody on board. I miss Charlie and look forward to seeing him tonight before he leaves for Las Vegas tomorrow, yes tomorrow, and even more look forward to our Spring Break trip on Wednesday. I cannot believe it's already Spring Break, this year has gone by so fast. Not really the first part of the school year, but definitely since they have gone back in January. I'm already stressing about getting the kids scheduled for everything this summer and getting all our travel plans in order and trying to figure out how I'm going to get to the gym and not gain 10 pounds back with all of our "vacations". But for now I just need to get us through the next two weeks. California, here we come!
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