Single Mom

Over the years of our marriage, there have been times when either Sam or I have left town alone (either for work or play) leaving the other spouse solo in their duties as the caretaker and homemaker. Sam will agree, that just about EVERY single time one of us is gone (which is mostly Sam), something unfortunate or weird happens back at home. I'm such a believer in Murphy's Law. These type of things don't happen unless one of us is alone. Why is that?

Sam has been gone 3 out of the last 4 weeks. First to Florida, and then to Minnesota. I am grateful and happy about his new employment, and my point is not to gripe, but I am soooooo ready for him to come home! And it's not just because I miss him (and miss his help), it's also because then I know crappy stuff will stop happening to me!
I'm not going to go into detail of every little event of the past couple weeks. But to name a few:

-4 out of 4 kids getting stomach flu. Yes, puke and diarrhea. Do you think any of them made it to the toilet? Or even on the tile or wood floor? Nope. Every single time it was on the carpet! One time even the whole flight of stairs! And did it ever happen in the daytime? Nope. Always in the middle of the night. And they weren't even sick at the same time. First Will, then I sanitized. Then Millie, sanitized again. Then Sambo, and his was the worst of all. I will never look at ham the same! Yesterday I washed every sheet, towell, and rag in the house and santizied everything! I am offiicially a professional carpet cleaner! So they missed some school days. I brought this on myself because I was just telling someone a few weeks ago about how my kids hardly ever get sick and if they do, they seldom throw-up.

-The house alarm went off at 3:00 in the morning. It went off just about an hour after I got done scrubbing carpet and finally got to bed. My heart has never jumped so far. It's a long story, but basically it was alerting because the outlet that it was plugged into needed to be reset and it had finally ran-out of charge. I discovered this after digging through my freezing storage room, pulling many huge storage bins off the shelves to find the blasted outlet! I only knew to do this because I had to call Sam at his hotel and asking him how the he** to shut it off. The whole while, the alarm is alerting loudly, waking up all the kids. The rest of the night was spent with 3 little ones sharing my bed.

-Okay I'm getting sick of thinking and typing right now. I had such intentions of journaling some more of my adventures as a single mom. They mostly have to do with bad luck and sleep deprivation. But I'll have to tell it another day.
I. am. tired.

-One more thing: I totally repect single parents.

-Sam returns home to us tomorrow, yay! I do have to say that I handled things quite nicely; I feel like Super Mom! Even Daisy and Shortleg (our pets) are alive! For the most part, the kids were great. I'm grateful to have such happy good kids. I bonded with them even more because I didn't have to share them with Sam. Everyone got to where they needed to be, and even on time. We had fun, the 5 of us, cruising around in our new "sports car!"

I was dreading him leaving town but it wasn't too bad. I'm proud of myself that I made it through and I'm feeling pretty darn good (and tired). Somebody from above is helping me :)

-Sam, I miss you.