vacations and such

So whoever thinks that men don't PMS has apparently never lived with one. I also feel that their "symptoms" last much longer than women's and can be cataclysmic. I wont go into details for the sheer sake of my marriage but trust me on this! That being said....

We have an interesting dynamic in our house being that I'm still good friends with my baby daddy and Joey and him have a pretty good relationship (I think). We all just went away for an overnight trip down to the keys and I met the new chick in his life. All very interesting and the juicier and more horrifying details will be in my tell all book. It will be written when I hit middle age, probably around 50 since I plan to live to be 100, still driving and independent of course. I'm hoping by then no one will care as much that I divulge this information. Meeting the new woman in his life is always interesting and stressful. It would also be nice if I don't have to do it many more times. This could give me an ulcer.

I'm sure its intimidating coming into our home and relationships and finding a comfortable place to sit. I commend Joe for being so awesome with it. I'm sure she was thinking to herself "OMG is this what vacations are like as a family?" We all know that the words family and vacation should not be synonymous with one another. Family vacays are a ton of work and everyone usually ends up slightly strung out by the end. With the kids too its not all margaritas and relaxing. There is no sleeping that last drink off. Its more like "I better not have another or we're crossing the fine line of tipsy to inebriated." So I shall remain sober and wrangle them all in like I'm herding cattle. Now, don't get me wrong there are still good times to be had they are just strewn about between the "other" moments. You gotta just shake those "others" off. I'm sure a few months from now all will be forgotten and we'll get the bright idea to do it again. While I'm there then I'll remember how I said I wasn't doing that again....too late! Parenting retards the brain cells.

Our parenting styles are kinda different...he likes to teach Mason songs like Keesha's Tik Tok and I'm in Miami Trick. I however I am still working on the ABC's. Small things like that. I struggled a few times to not strangle him in front of his new girlfriend, wouldn't want to make him look bad or me look crazy.

I guess a vacation can be considered a success based not upon how much fun the adults had but rather on whether we all walked away with all the kids in tow and no one got sick. I mean lets face it, they're all gonna complain about stuff regardless. Its what they do as soon as they can form words.