Oh, hey

Remember the oldest children we have? The 11, 8 and 5 year old?

They stayed behind for A WEEK….OR MORE!

Bill and I are on our own with Mia.

The silence is deafening, but much welcome. We sooooo needed some quiet time.

Now come closer and I will tell you a secret………………….that’s it……………just a bit more…………………

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I don’t miss them.

That’s right, you heard me. As much as I love them and enjoy being with them, I don’t miss them….just yet.

I know I will.

The point will come when my arms will ache for them, and I won’t be able to take another day away from them.

But…..not…..just…..yet.

I want to allow myself some time to let my ears stop ringing and a chance to get my eyeballs back in their sockets after that first day of summer break when they popped right out of my head and rolled across the floor from all the pressure building up in my head. Bill came home and said “Hey, where are your eyes?” and I replied, “I don’t know……they got sucked out of my head by the kids and now I can’t see to find them”.

It was then we knew that the previous events from the beginning of May had taken their toll on Mom and it was time to hand the kids over to more capable hands……the hands that together had raised an only child, Bills step sister. The concept of multi-tasking is something foreign to them.

Yes, we dumped 3 fresh out of school, young, wild boys on Bill’s 72yo father and step mother.

And they are armed…..
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and wild
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They may never speak to us again.