back again.

i've been traveling yet again.  this time i was gone for over a week.  a mixture of pure bliss and agony.  the crazy pace of my work schedule was welcome relief from the insanity of my real life but i carried a heavy weight deep in my tummy each day that i was gone from the kids.  jack was nice enough to pick and choose the days he felt like he wanted to be with the kids and our nanny picked up the slack.  bless her poor, burnt out soul.

8 days later i returned home to a frazzled nanny who had been dealing with sick kids (jack had meetings and couldn't care for them) the doctors appointment i set up from the road to treat the pink eye infection our youngest showed up at school with monday morning after spending the weekend with her doting father AND the aftermath of jack's decision to keep the kids home from school the next day when he called and demanded that she care for them~ completely oblivious to the fact that it was her birthday.  i apologized profusely and gave her a paid day off in hopes that she wouldn't just throw in the towel and quit on me.

i had lofty aspirations for how i would spend the next 4 days with my 3 darlings.  we gathered around the kitchen table and made lists of all the things we could do together.  reading picture books that had been gathering dust, playing wii, making forts with the couch cushions, and breaking out the paints they had gotten from Santa.  we all agreed on bacon and eggs for breakfast, pancakes for lunch and french toast and sausage for dinner.  we also vowed to spend the entire weekend in our pajamas.

it was heaven.  pure syrup~sticky heaven.