Beware you might catch IT!

I had a different post and all but I think I have caught the Mully Grubs! I am pretty sure that I have self diagnosed this thanks to a post a few weeks ago from The Farmer Files. I mean how can you not get the Mully Grubs now and again! Gas is 3.50 a gallon and heck I went to buy fresh Pineapple and what was the price TAG....7.00! If that is not enough to give you the Mully Grubs I do not know what is. I love my kiddos so much but I have to say this because my husband will not listen......I NEED A BREAK FROM THEM. I have been with them since they have been born.

Let me explain that statement. I have only been away from the Oldest the time I birthed the second child. Then the Second Child I have spent one night away from him when my Oldest was in the hospital. I am serious I have not ever left my kids with anybody. Well I can not honestly say that because yes my husband has keep them for me a few times. He usually keeps them from 6 to midnight once a month so I can go Scrapbooking. He kept the oldest one time before I was even prego with the second child from 8 in the morning to Midnight. I have not been out alone with my husband since the birth of our first child. My parents were here this year on New Years Eve and wanted us to go have dinner out and well my husband said no thanks to my parents.

He has spent so much time away from us that when he is home he wants us to do everything as a family. This past weekend I had it and told him that I was going to the grocery store ALONE. He was not happy about this because he likes for all of us to go to the grocery store together. NOW let me tell you this...he has never once went grocery shopping alone with our boys. He always has ME with him. I explained that he does NOTHING with just the 2 boys alone like I do.

I am so breaking his Rule here and talking about him. He thinks my entire day is playing with our kids. He says he wishes he could stay home with them all day. I get to sleep when I WANT (HA), I get to spend all this time with the kids that he does not get! I am living it up here and he has to work! I know every stay at home MOM has these same issues at one point or another...HOW DO YOU FIX IT....I want to know!

My Hubs and I have talked this subject to death and in his mind the only solution is that I go back to work and he stay home to raise the boys. HA.... I have done all the hard time here since the oldest will be in school full time next year! Plus the reality of the situation is that I could not make no where near what he is making. He carries the free insurance and all the benefits to boot.

O yeah and one side note.... The Husband was away all week last week in Scotland....My husband informed me that Scotland was not a Vacation for him because it was part of work. The pictures of the Historic sites they visited are going to be part of a slide show presentation to present to others that will be going back to Scotland later in the year. They were there just for Recon and setting up the tours and all for when the others go over for two weeks. O and yes My husband will be going back for a part of all that for two weeks! But the whole point is that it was NO VACATION at all. OK can you picture my look. He is talking to a MOM who has never been away over night once since giving birth! Heck anything would be a VACATION to me. I would enjoy being able to get a shower daily like my husband does!

O speaking of getting a shower....and one last little note....and a reason I try to get showers when the little ones are asleep.....this is what happened while my Husband was in Scotland. I did not get up in time to have a shower before the boys awoke. Frankly I was exhausted. Later in the afternoon I could not stand a second longer and put on Toy Story DVD and parked both kids in front of the TV. I told my Oldest that I was going in for a quick shower and for them to watch the show. I fixed them up with grapes and some Diego snacks. I was in the shower with soap in my hair and my oldest comes and says MOMMY son2 is outside. I go in to the panic mode and get out and grab a robe with soap in my hair. I go to the door and yes he is in our backyard on our swing set...he let his self out of the door. So that does not sound bad right???? WELL IT GETS BETTER.....HE WAS NAKED! Yes he had taken off his clothes and went outside! I ran out in my robe and grab him up well sort of because he ran from me at first. I was mortified! I can just imagine the neighbors calling Child Services or something. I have to say that I will never again attempt to shower again while they are awake! I did tell my husband all of this when he came home. His response was not that the boys did anything wrong...it was that I knew better than to leave them alone while I showered. UGGG Yes this is also a cause of my MULLY GRUBS....I have the MOMMY GUILT'S and on top of it my husband did not even make me feel any better about the incident.

I have to say that right now I can laugh and being a scrapbooker would have loved to take pictures of him but then again the CHILD SERVICES THING POPS IN MY HEAD AND PROBABLY ALL THE LAWS ABOUT CHILD PORNO OR SOMETHING. YOU can just picture it...he was in all his natural Glory swinging on the swing!!!!!!!

However, on a positive side note: I picked up the Husband Friday Night at the Airport from his SCOTLAND trip so he spent most of Saturday sleeping and by Sunday I told him that I needed to go alone to the grocery store!!!! I spent 3 and half hours at the grocery store on Sunday. It was pure heaven to shop without my husband and kids! I mapped out and listed everything I needed and I was ready for battle with my coupons. NOW here is the REAL KICKER....I SAVED 65.83 with coupons. The store I shopped at accepted competitor coupons and boy I used those and every other coupon I came across. I still spent a flaming fortune 268.97 worth of groceries and that is after my coupons. I was out of everything though. I did not go to the grocery store last week while my husband was in SCOTLAND (have I stressed that my husband was gone last week) for the week. You know when I am here alone with the boys it is simple things like Sunbutter (peanut butter substitute) and jelly sandwiches or tomato sandwich.

Ok so I guess this is a vent of sorts and yes I officially have the Mully Grubs....I am in a funk. I will however prevail because I always do and there is always that light at the end...right? I guess going to the grocery store and seeing that PINEAPPLE for 7.00 dollars sort of sent me over the edge. lol

Well that is enough for one day and hopefully I will make a full recovery of the MULLY GRUBS by the end of the week!!!!!!


PS remember the MULLY GRUBS may be contagious so take precautions after reading my post!! What are the precautions you might ask?

1. alone time
2. Dinner out with the Girls
3. Night at a swanky Hotel alone without Hubs or KIDDOS
4. Shower without a child running the neighborhood naked...well that is one of My personal favs this week!
5. MOVIE a real good chick flick
6. A weekend alone in Charleston!!!
7. Husband taking the kids so I can soak in the Tube!
8. Pampering by the Husband


any of these things just might keep the MULLY GRUBS away.....well that is my list....you can create your own. I would love to see YOUR LIST of precautions of keeping the MULLY GRUBS at bay!!!!!!!!