five sleeps is a lot of fricking sleeps

If you ever happen over to my lovely hubby's blog, you might already know that he has abandoned us for greater pursuits this week, in no place other than Vegas. Yup, dude's in Vegas, and I'm here in snow-turned-sleet-turned-slush-land with three wackjob kids. And, to top that off, school was cancelled today is already scheduled to be closed on Friday for a teacher day, so it's a very long week of not much Mommy-time-off built in. (In the interest of full disclosure, my dear mother-in-law came up this afternoon and will be here until Friday morning, so I do get some assistance, and so I really should stop my bitching now, right??)

Since the kids aren't all that accustomed to having Daddy being away, I thought I'd follow that simple idea of a paper chain to help them (not me, surely!) count down the time remaining until his blessed return. We did this in the number of 'sleeps' for Red's benefit, and JAM graciously wrote and decorated the slips. (The best one was the first paper for 'Five More Sleeps!' that included a drawing of what was supposed to be my face when I was crying, but really ended up looking like a Mii character with those heavy wrinkles... same difference, I guess, as this trip is simultaneously making me cry and prematurely aging my delicate facial features.)

This morning we ripped off that wrinkly-crying-mii-face, and tomorrow morning "Four More Sleeps!" will get trashed as well. All that lovely hubby asked me to promise him was not to sell the children while he was gone. So far, so good. Close, but good. (Apparently ebay has regulations, or some crap like that...)

All kidding aside (and that is what I was doing, dear!), I am very much missing my big guy. While I am a fan of sleeping in a large span of bed without fighting for the blankets or having an elbow bump into my eye socket (no exaggerations there-- two common occurrences, in fact), I do miss the feeling that he is nearby while I am sleeping. Call me sappy, but five sleeps is a very long time to be apart. I am very much looking forward to Sunday morning!