At Last!!: Too Much of a Good Thing?

Well here's some news: I do not enjoy spending every waking hour with my son. There, I said it. Now I can get on with my guilt. Actually it's not the fact that I am admitting to not cherishing our time together this summer, it's that I have really started to think that he might not actually like spending his time with me. Well, maybe a little bit of both.

Not sure if I shared this but back in May, Henry's regular daycare provider (Ms. Karen) had a health scare. As it turns out she is fine and recovering. Henry will return to her in August. At the time, we (Henry and three of his buddies), were given about two weeks to find other arrangements. We actually did find an alternate which we were not sure would be permanent. The plan was to keep Henry there until the Fall, when I returned to work. Without divulging any details, the arrangement was less than stellar (to say the least). I decided to take Henry out of that situation and keep him home with me for the summer. My hopes of finally unpacking the remaining boxes from the move (October) and actually cleaning this placed quickly vanished as I realized what it was like to have a 2.5 year old here...with me...all day...all day. Did I say, all day?

Needless to say, we've been getting on each other's nerves and, I swear, if I say, "Henry don't touch that!" one more time I think we are both going to jump out a window.

Writing this now, I suppose it does not seem like too big of a deal and I might have even elicited a giggle from some, and absolutely no sympathy but I can't help but wonder how the HECK did my mom do it with four of us toddling around? This is something that has bothered me for a few weeks and I felt I really should be honest on this crazy blog. Anyway, there it is. I am not the mom I thought I would be. What I will not do is park him in from of the idiot box while I clean or get my life organized. All this and Billy is knee deep in opening a restaurant with a couple partners and is busier than busy. Are we having fun yet?

Anyhoo, to make life slightly less insane I have given up the notion that we will live in House Beautiful and I am no Martha wanna-be. So I got to work planning activities and outings. I learned early on that away from the house morning activities = better naps = happy Henry = happy Mommy.

So this actually makes me think of some cocktail napkins that I recently bought for a friend, "Boo-Frickin' Hoo, have a cocktail and get over it."

With that, here are some of our most recent activities:

Rocknoserous Concert
Henry shaking his bootie!