Not cut out for this

This week has been a little different, well a lot different. Ron has been gone since Monday evening. First of all - I hate to be alone, especially in the evening when the house is quiet except for the creaking noises, but secondly I miss my hubby! He went to Jackson, MS with 3 other former Seminarians. Back to their stomping grounds, Wesley Biblical Seminary. I am happy that they were able to make the trip, but I really am not cut out to be a single parent.

I can handle the occasional day or evening, even a night here or there, but it has been way to long. We need our daddy back! He should arrive this evening! It sounds like they had a great time.

Here are a few of the ways we have passed our time this past week.

The boys all had dentist appointments. For Eli, this was a little scary - he had been once before, but as he says it, "I was still little and it was kinda scary". So since he is much bigger now (a whole 6 months), he just needed me to hold his hand as we walked in and then take his picture while the doctor checked him out. Eli wouldn't stop talking. He asked the dentist if I could take a picture of him "working on my teeth". Then he said, "I won't cry, cause I'm big now". When the dentist agreed that there was nothing to cry about. Eli went on to tell him that he is a big boy now, "I'm even wearing underwares." Which of course the dentist couldn't understand and looked to me for translation. Thankfully he's a daddy too and thought it was so Big Boy of Eli!

so here you have Dr. Parsall and Eli in his big boys 'underwares'

My mom came to help for a couple of days. I had a meeting one night and also the dentist appointment (that I wasn't sure I could handle Maddie and the big boy above). Mom was a great help. She brought new Leap Pad games

and even one for Maddie

She also ready TONS of books

What the pictures don't show are the other 3 kids that I babysit for. Mom read to them too and played with all of them, so that I could keep my sanity. I was running on little sleep (did I mention I don't sleep well with Ron gone) and I was trying to remember all the things he does that I had to keep up on (gathering the trash - before the garbage man comes, getting to the Post Office before it closes and filling the truck with gas - just to name a few). Mom also ran the boys to school and picked them up, a huge blessing!

So mom was a big help. She said when she left, "I think we talk more on the phone than we did these last couple of days" - things are busy around here.

Then would you believe that handsome hubby of mine remembered my birthday too. He not only had flowers and chocolate delivered to me. He had also taken the boys shopping and had their gifts wrapped, and hidden with specific instructions to not forget the day and to sing Happy Birthday too. It was cute!

Thursday morning we sat down for breakfast and Ronnie said, "mom, can I go to the bathroom?" "Yes", I replied rather quickly. It seems someone is always getting up when we sit down to eat.

We no sooner got our cereal poured and began when Ronnie came around the corner with a gift bag singing Happy Birthday with a huge grin on his face. It was so cute! The whole breakfast I got the play by play of when they shopped, how long they kept the secret and what they had contemplated getting. These boys of mine, they are pretty special.

So that was the gist of our week. We are waiting for Daddy and ready to get back to a 2 parent home. I'm not cut out for this single parent family thing.