Frustration

So I am typing this on an iPad mini so I am sure there will be many mistakes made.

We are currently on vacation and things are going pretty well. Elizabeth has been doing really well, she is listening and not trying to bolt. Samantha is doing well behavior wise but has actually been sick. The first day of vacation she caught some type of stomach bug and was throwing up everything she ate.

So vacation over all has been good but the title of the post is frustration so I am sure you know it's not going to be all sunshine and roses.

My family including my parents and siblings are all down here along with my grandparents and my friend ( also babysitter) and her husband. My family always comes down here for a week this time of year. I am not sure if all families do this or if it is just a Pittsburgh thing to go to Ocean City in the summer. We have not come the past few years for various reasons, mostly having kids that were too young to actually enjoy the beach.

So tonight was the night that my friend was supposed to watch the kids so myself and my husband could go out to dinner and then have a night out. I was really looking forward to coming back to the hotel with the kids asleep and not having to do the usual bedroom routine. But that was not to be, instead I came home and the kids were still up and down on the deck with my family. That in itself did not make me mad, it was more what my Mother had to say about it. She had come up to the room and asked my friend to bring the down, again fine with me, and I am not upset with my friend at all over that. My anger is more toward the comments that were made.

She knew I was upset at her but the problem is that she cannot understand why. The reason I was upset and this is probably something that most of you reading this can relate to, is that I never get a night off and now seeing my kids I knew it would be me putting them to bed. What most people who only have "normal" kids do not understand is they I cannot just explain to my kid that Mommy wants to stay down here on the deck and relax so please go upstairs with the babysitter while I stay here. It just does not compute to my child, if Mommy is here she should be coming upstairs with me.

Instead of understanding where I am coming from I instead get comments about how I need to let my kids have fun and that I should be doing more with my kids. What she does not seem to get is that we spend every single weekend and even most weeknights doing things with my kids. I cam count on one hand the times that I have had a babysitter just to have a night out in the four years my kids have been alive. She will never understand what it is like to have a child that you always have to be on around, you cannot stop paying attention for even one second when your child lacks that safety awareness.

Right now Elizabeth is in a pretty good place but that is sometimes short lived. Overall though it was a great week. We all had a lot of fun and the kids were really good. They loved the beach and the pool. The weather was good and we only had one day of rain mid week.

I drove the whole way home because my husband caught whatever stomach bug Samantha had the first day.Of course the weather was fine until we got back into Pennsylvania where it started to monsoon. Seems to be the trend this summer in Pittsburgh, either rain or its so hot you cannot function.

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