i like the smell of construction paper & elmers glue

first off, let me tell you that these days i am pretty much a single parent with the responsibilities of a married person. chris leaves before we do, then doesn't get home until after the boys are in bed most nights. he's working in rome, and then has to come back to cartersville to make his deposit and do any checking in he needs to. sometimes i'm awake longer than 30 minutes when he gets home, most nights not. mikey is still waking every 3 hours at night, so yeah, i'm tired. anyway, i have to find ways to keep the boys occupied, when they get bored bad things happen, lol. and with the weather getting cold and everyone so sick i can't just lock, i mean send, them outside. so we do crafts and attend MOMS club stuff, play at McD's. but their favorite is to "do a project". out of all the kits i've bought of crafts for them, they seem to just like construction paper, glue, buttons, and a hole punch. who knew?!?! ahhh to be young and have life so simple. i noticed tonight when i opened the trash can it smelled of kingergarten, lol, that glue mixed with paper smell, and at that moment i realized that it doesn't take much to make a kid happy.
on other notes. i took them to pottery lane yesterday with the MOMS club. i have avoided that place like the plague, i mean 4 boys in a store full of breakables........like letting a herd of wild buffalo loose right??? nope. my kids were soooooooo good. of course i threatened them before we even got out the car. but they did exactly as i said, had a good time making their stuff, and everyone left happy, without having to pay for any broken items. i even got a compliment from another mom today at the business meeting about their behavior, made me just beam.
i'm loving MOMS club. after the meeting today 3 of us went to lunch, that was nice. and i volunteered to head up the recipe club. for those who don't understand this irony - i'm not the best cook and can't bake to save my life. i love to try new recipes but i'm just not that creative in the kitchen. laugh at me later, but for now i have faith in myself..........i said for now.......geez.
saturday chris and i go to atlanta for a night away. we are staying at the crowne plaza where his work event is. i even forked out the extra money for the romance package, champagne, strawberries, room service breakfast....but you all know they really sucked me in with the late 3pm check out. is it really sad that i'm looking more toward solid uninterrupted sleep than anything else. we joke that we really just want to go for the rest. i told chris i saw no reason to get out of bed before 2:30pm, lmao.
then he leaves sunday night for training in orlando. he won't get home really late friday night. but like i told him, it'll be no different than these past few weeks, lol. actually it may be less stressful, cause the kids are happy with PB&J's every night, lmao.
ok, chris called and i lost my train of thought, my head is pounding, and it's almost my bed time!