hey my O-Fam!!! I am here, physically at least. mentally-- man, I am a mess!!!!
It has been a rough return to "Real Life" the last few days. The first day back, I was soooo happy to be home and so excited to sleep in my own bed. Except that when I tried to sleep, my brain would not turn off. I think I got about 3-4 hours of really crappy sleep that night. So yesterday I had to unpack, do some laundry and clean out the refrigerator because apparently Gary didn't see that the watermelon from the week before was turning to mush and that some of the bread was fuzzy and so on. I have total post-vacation let down, and was tired and stressed to the max.
This morning, I feel somewhat better considering I was able to sleep until 4 am when I woke up in a total panic attack. i tried so hard to get back to sleep, then I tired so hard to relax to some meditation podcasts and nothing was working, so here I am.
Vacations were ok. PA was a bit more relaxing than the shore. We barely got in any beach time and we had to be on the boardwalk *every* night which I hate, but I felt super rude to not go. The 4 teenagers pretty much did their own thing and Scott's GF's mom, who rented the house for the week, likes to go to the boardwalk, so I went too. But the noise and lights and crowds aren't good for my sensory overload issues-- I learned to take half a Xanax before we went if I was feeling already a bit fried.
The house we stayed in was just adorable and I loved walking on the beach in the mornings. The first morning we did that, we found what we thought was a super-cool shell and when we proudly showed it to the kids, they told us it was a plastic bottle cap that someone had chewed. The next morning we found what looked to be a bit of driftwood with a slug or something like that dried onto it. No luck there either. Turns out it was an orange peel. Third morning we were on a *mission*--- and found an almost fully intact horseshoe crab (yes, it was dead LOL). We dug that sucker up and Arlene carried it home. The kids were sooooo not impressed. hahahah!!! We were however and we even named it. Sealy, one letter for each kids' initial and then the "y" to make it cute.
The last morning we got to walk, we found a plastic fish, and a pistachio shell. The kids were proud that we finally brought home a shell, even if it wasn't a sea shell.
Today I am off to go food shopping and both kids want to come with me.
Not sure if that is good or bad.
I also have so much catching up to do here, I have missed you all so much!
xoxoxo
It has been a rough return to "Real Life" the last few days. The first day back, I was soooo happy to be home and so excited to sleep in my own bed. Except that when I tried to sleep, my brain would not turn off. I think I got about 3-4 hours of really crappy sleep that night. So yesterday I had to unpack, do some laundry and clean out the refrigerator because apparently Gary didn't see that the watermelon from the week before was turning to mush and that some of the bread was fuzzy and so on. I have total post-vacation let down, and was tired and stressed to the max.
This morning, I feel somewhat better considering I was able to sleep until 4 am when I woke up in a total panic attack. i tried so hard to get back to sleep, then I tired so hard to relax to some meditation podcasts and nothing was working, so here I am.
Vacations were ok. PA was a bit more relaxing than the shore. We barely got in any beach time and we had to be on the boardwalk *every* night which I hate, but I felt super rude to not go. The 4 teenagers pretty much did their own thing and Scott's GF's mom, who rented the house for the week, likes to go to the boardwalk, so I went too. But the noise and lights and crowds aren't good for my sensory overload issues-- I learned to take half a Xanax before we went if I was feeling already a bit fried.
The house we stayed in was just adorable and I loved walking on the beach in the mornings. The first morning we did that, we found what we thought was a super-cool shell and when we proudly showed it to the kids, they told us it was a plastic bottle cap that someone had chewed. The next morning we found what looked to be a bit of driftwood with a slug or something like that dried onto it. No luck there either. Turns out it was an orange peel. Third morning we were on a *mission*--- and found an almost fully intact horseshoe crab (yes, it was dead LOL). We dug that sucker up and Arlene carried it home. The kids were sooooo not impressed. hahahah!!! We were however and we even named it. Sealy, one letter for each kids' initial and then the "y" to make it cute.
The last morning we got to walk, we found a plastic fish, and a pistachio shell. The kids were proud that we finally brought home a shell, even if it wasn't a sea shell.
Today I am off to go food shopping and both kids want to come with me.
Not sure if that is good or bad.I also have so much catching up to do here, I have missed you all so much!
xoxoxo
happy sunny day!