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Overnight Babysitters….

“It was a real pleasure to look after the girls,” said our overnight babysitters. (They also said, “We couldn’t get the volume to work on the t.v.” but that is to be expected)

 

It’s exactly what you hope to hear when you return home from being away overnight. It always beats, “Your kids dropped the F-bomb and shoved fancy linens into the toilet.” A part of you worries, will my kids be relaxed, fun, charming and willing to eat everything offered? Or will they be tired, grumpy and force people to warm up their milk in 3 second intervals with taste-tests in between each completed set until the milk is perfectly palatable by 5 year old standards?

 
When you hear “It was a real pleasure” a part of me wonders if that comment is forced. The way there’s a hint of pre-selected, random comments on report cards, “Elizabeth is a pleasure to have in class” but the sub-text is sometimes, “But she’s a real pill in the gym and in the hallways and don’t get me started on the drinking fountain line-up.”

 
We had a busy weekend. The kids had two birthday parties and Greg & I had one of our own (one princess themed, one at an indoor mini-putt course, one Mexican). Allow me to clarify, the theme was Mexican, to my knowledge there were no actual Mexicans at the party, not that there would be anything wrong with that.

 
Nights away from the kids don’t happen often but when they do, it’s a time for us to stay up late, catch up and laugh with old friends and drink as much freezing cold milk as we can consume.

 
Yesterday when we returned home, everyone was completely exhausted.
We did our best to stay focused when Ellie announced, “Everyone down to the basement to watch my new gymnastics routine!” But Ellie, you don’t do gymnastics…oh never mind. Let’s go.

 
Chloe wanted to show us the pyramid of candy she had earned at her party that had a “Tornado of candy!” We later learned a “tornado of candy” is Chloe-speak for piñata.

 
We went outside to enjoy the first bright, sunny day we’ve had in weeks but at the surface, what we really wanted was to feel like good parents by running the kids around in some fresh air so we could justify putting on a movie and having a nap.

 
There were swim practices, clocks jumping ahead, clinics on how to perfectly heat milk but we made it through.

 
Thank you to all of the overnight babysitters out there.

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