- carry a phone - this is CRAZY! for me anyway
- read email
- check blogs
- blog
- read the news
- check the weather
- worry about not carrying a phone
- worry about email
- worry about the news
- worry about weather
- worry about work - again CRAZY! and wonderful
- put any kids in time out - I had to threaten maybe once...
Things I DID do on vacation:
- Realize what a good mom I am
- enjoy the beach and pool
- enjoy my family
- realize what an independent person Molly really wants to be
- and that she can't be trusted by the edge of a pool for 1 second
- or she will jump to the nearest person or no person off the edge of the big pool while I am readjusting Aubrey's goggles or inner tube
- listen to Molly yell at me when I tried to touch her in the pool and LAUGH and smile and engage everyone she met
- realize how brave, polite, and fun Aubrey is
- even if she walks up to random people and asks to use their pool toys/regular toys/towels/food... repeatedly.
- ride in a limo - HAPPY ALMOST 50th Wedding Anniversary!
- have an unbelievable massage
- sit in the space between the sink and the vanity in the hotel room each night so the kids couldn't see me so they would fall asleep... I read an entire novel while doing that.
- enjoy my husband
- drink a pail of mango margaritas and some glow in the dark drink (with something called hypntq) and a fruity chocolaty martini thing, twice.
- enjoy a breakfast buffet every morning... that's a lot of yummy eggs
- watch Aubrey swim in the Gulf of Mexico with her head under water and everything (video to come of that I think)
- enjoy a wonderful vacation with my family and RELAX