6 long days

My husband was gone for six days in San Diego for a class that he teaches.  I hate when he is gone.  I can't sleep very well and I don't like to parent by myself.  I am just glad that he usually is never gone.  All week I just kept thinking about all the military families I know and how their spouse is sometimes gone for longer than 6 months, I don't know how they do it, I could barely do it for six days! 

Since Pat was gone for a week I made a to-do-list of things to do at night when the kids went to bed. 

• clean my closet: I finally found all my socks!
• finish putting bricks around the back corner flower bed and put red rocks on it (didn't quite get to that)
• sew, sew, sew:  I wanted to stock pile some burp cloths and taggie blankets.  I only made 7 burp cloths, 3 taggie blankets and a spiderman pillow case
• rearrange my bedroom
• organize the garage:  I bought the Rubbermaid hanging tool thing from Costco, it was so easy to put up and I was able to hang all shovels, rakes, etc.
• Clean counters and get on my hands and knees and mop the floor
• wash, dry and fold every piece of dirty clothing
• clean the inside of the car: only for it to be dirty three days later!

Some of the fun stuff:
Sunday-Tatum and I went to Costco and Jo Ann Fabrics, went to Aunt Patty's for dinner
Monday-We went to down to "Grammersville" and visited my sister and grandparents, went to Grandma Maggie's for dinner
Tuesday-Jungle Playland with Cari, Riley and Kayliegh
Wednesday-went to the Park, visited Papa Swapp, Ty got a haircut, had Cari, Riley and Kayleigh over
Thursday-Went to the Thousand Trails where my sister was camping with her family and spent the day swimming
Friday-went to the Arts Festival, had Papa Swapp watch the kids so I could go shopping with Nicole, visited a high school friend and met her baby 

This week was fun, rewarding, frustrating and long but glad it's over!  And one more thing, Tatum can now sing her ABC's, yeah!


Now I am just counting down the minutes until my hubby gets home!