Summer Vacation!!

So, I am extremely grateful for my in-laws! The countdown to my summer vacation has started!!! And I'm not referring to the kids, but MINE! In less than a week Remy and Jackie will be in Long Island for 4 weeks.  Don't get me wrong, I love my kids, but I just really need a break! And it just so works out that my in-laws love having the kids visit.

Every summer after Remy's first year he's gone to his grandparents. He loves it, of course. Jackie went her first time when I was pregnant with the twins last year (and I felt so bad because she was so little), but of course she loved it. So now this will be the first time that the two of them will be going together and I think I'm more excited than the kids!

I don't think my in-laws know what they are getting into with those two. Siblings have such a neat relationship where they bicker about everything! I now have a greater respect for my mother raising four kids on her own, because thank God I have Bryan to help keep control! It will be nice to not have to hear any arguing for a few weeks.

So yeah, even though I'm sick of hearing "when are we going to grandma and grandpa's?" over and over everyday, it will all be worth it in the end. I know they are counting down, "But guess what kids?! I'm counting down too!!"

I'm looking forward to enjoying time with the little boys. They are at such a great age where they are still cute because: they can't talk back, they wear whatever you put on them, they don't ask for stuff when you go to the store, they still take naps, they don't care if you watch adult tv, they go to bed on time, they eat everything, and they don't care if plans fall through.

I also have a long list of things that I want to do or that I will be able to, if I so choose, while the big kids are gone. For starters I will be able to do yoga without kids running circles around me, crawling under my downward dog or asking me questions. I will be able to go for a nice walk while Bry is at work without being a magician (if there is a way to enjoy a walk with four little kids and a dog without yelling, getting frustrated, stopping every 2 feet, giving pep talks that we are almost there, then someone please let me know.) I can go shopping and not have to remind anyone that they are not getting anything, even if they have their own money. I can throw toys away without someone crying or taking it back out of the trash. I can paint the bathroom and know that no one will get in my paint.  Anyway, the list is long.

Some of you may be thinking, "Hey lady, you still have two babies." And my answer, " going from 4 kids 6 and under to two 1-yr-olds is like a walk in the park." After a year with four (and it's been a rough year), I'm confident that I will be just fine with two little babies.So yeah, 6 days till summer vacation!