I'm in time-out.

I just wanted to write real quick about the most peaceful moment of my week. It is happening right now.

We are getting ready to go on our annual camping trip and currently have our camp trailor, given by my in-laws, parked outside of our house. It's normally parked year-round at my in-law's since they have room and space for it with their acreage. But we brought it out here to the city last night to get it ready for our trip. This morning Audrey & I played around in it opening up all cupboards and figuring out what we need more of, less of and frankly trying to remember what was in it since last summer. But them, of course, in the middle of things being pulled out and halfway through my wipe-down of counters, etc, Audrey decides she wants to get out of it. So since I was in the middle of being productive, I did what would any Mom do, I handed her a cool camp utensil and asked her to tell me about it. She pulled it apart and handed it back to me saying she didn't want it, it's broken.

Soooo.....we headed back inside our house. There was a bit of a screamfest over a scraped knee from tripping outside on the sidewalk. She ate lunch, Ellie woke up and has been really clingy lately (read previous post to see that I totally did not mind)..possibly due to teething. She cried when I put her down so I could tend to Audrey's bleeding knee. Audrey cried harder the more I told her she was going to be okay and that it will feel better soon if I just put this band-aid on....

(Sidenote: why is it that children are FIXATED on opening up band-aid wrappers and peeling the tags off to stick band-aids all over themselves, their animals, their sister, their mother, the wall...you get the idea... BUT once they actually need a band-aid they are scared to death of it...or is that just my child? When I was looking for one simple band-aid I found more wrappers then I'd like to count.)


Lots of little girl tears later, I was finally able to scarf down my lunch at 2:30pm knowing Audrey was asleep in her bed and Ellie would be soon....but of course was not feeling like she wanted to play on the floor while I ate my plate on the chair by her, so what did she do? Managed to climb onto a toy to get on the chair to grab for me to climb up onto my face, to reach for my food that was spicy, and total choke hazard for miss Ellie Bee. It was stressful. I tried to ignore the little monkey that was very much invading my personal bubble space, while I ate as fast as I could.

Finally both girls are asleep and I grabbed my little laptop and headed for a time-out of my own. Our camp trailor. We love it and can't wait to use it again. But for now, it shall be my little home-away-from home quiet space when Mommy needs a break. This is lovely. I have windows open and have been enjoying hearing birds chirping and the wind blowing onto my face. Sure, it still needs to be wiped down and gone through and camp lists/food lists made....but for now I am not going to worry about any of that.

To add to my relaxing Mommy time-out, Aaron just brought me a smirnoff cranberry & lime (it's a fruity malt beer), my drink of choice so far this summer and a beer of his own and said "think we should keep this up year-round??" Knowing just how relaxed I am right now, I'm thinking that sounds like a great idea.

Cheers!