Sun-Kissed

So after a weekend in the pool with the kids, I am pooped, but it does not end there. No, today is Monday and Lily woke up saying I wanna go in the pool. I love it. She used to cry at the water, now she’s a water bug like the rest of us; she even dunked under fully 4 times now!!
It’s been pretty rough here the last few days. Tensions high because my mom is, well she’s being her, so life has been an emotional roller coaster. The pool is at least neutral ground for the most part but some days I just can’t take her. She has a vacation coming up from July 1st until the 10th I think, I’m not positive, and I am hoping it all settles down by then. But the good thing is she can babysit while Danielle, Gen and I see Eclipse and maybe she will even let me and Gen go out with friends to see a movie.
Then there is that. Getting out of the house is extremely difficult. We aren’t like normal 23 and 21 year olds. I have a 4 year old who I unfortunately get no help from her father and then there is K but do I even have to elaborate? People don’t understand what actually goes into getting a day out for a couple of hours. We have to ask at least 2 weeks in advance and it always has to be a Thursday or a Friday. It’s not easy to get any kind of time to ourselves, even though I tell Gen all the time to go out, call a friend, take a day, she didn’t have kids, but she’s my best friend through and through and refuses to have fun if I’m stuck home with 2 kids. Love that girl, but she’s an idiot, lol. I am having a birthday dinner July 23rd that I still have to clear with Danielle and Mom and that will take some bribing and persuading. I just get sooooooo frustrated because our friends forget that we have obligations, we don’t get to go to bars or take a walk or go to a movie or do Applebee’s late at night, or wherever else unattached kids go, we don’t have a normal life and we haven’t for a REALLY long time. I love my daughter and I love spending most of my time with her, I just get mad when people don’t understand it isn’t just a hey let’s do this and I just say YES and go. No, it’s more like I can’t do that today but ask me that again in two weeks so I can get a babysitter before that day and then we can go but we have only this amount of time to do because I have to get back to my kid cause that’s how life works. And it makes me sooo mad when people don’t get that.
Anyway, I need to go clean up the kitchen and living room and then get the munchkins ready for the pool. Another day, Another adventure.
Quote for the road;
"He stared at her, knowing with certainty that he was falling in love. He pulled her close and kissed her beneath a blanket of stars, wondering how on earth he'd been lucky enough to find her."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Last Song)