Sometimes, you just have to take matters into your own hands. Saturday night, I told my husband that I would be needing to sleep in for Mother’s Day, so he would have to get up with the baby.
When the baby woke up at six, and he was already up, I thought it would be no issue, only Tom wasn’t up to take care of the baby; he had been up being sick. So much for sleeping in.
So, there I was, four kids and me, on Mother’s Day.
I had been sick on Friday, and hadn’t managed to buy gifts for my mom or mother-in-law, so I told Tom I was going to get them gift cards from a local nursery (as in plants, not babies). His response was “Cool... buy something nice for yourself too.”
Oh good, no sleeping in and no gift. He’s lucky he’s cute.
So, off I went, with the four kids, to the nursery. Thank God for the DVD player in my van... cause I got lost. We were driving around for a good 20 minutes before I found it.
We went to Tom’s mom’s first and we had breakfast there. His whole family were in town for his Dad’s birthday this weekend... not really a good weekend for being sick (I should mention, in total six people got sick this weekend).
After hanging with cousins, aunts, uncles and grand parents for a while, we headed to my mom’s.
We didn’t stay though, turns out she was sick too, so I just dropped off her present. I didn’t think she would want all the kids running around her house.
Now what?
I decided the best thing to do would be to take Tom’s advice, I went shopping.
The kids bought me a new pair of sandals, a purse and some sun glasses... Happy Mother’s Day to me!
I think the kids would like me to have a pedicure too... maybe on my day off tomorrow!
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