The Quickie

Oh my goodness! What a crazy 2 days we have had. Hubby came home Tuesday night after a meeting with his new employer and told me "hey, we are going to Thailand on Thursday!"
At first I am like, WOW yay lets go! Then once I realised I would have to plan and pack for a trip in 2 days with 2 kids underfoot I started to stress big time. If it wasn't for gigantic cans of Red Bull I don't think I would have made it. Saying that it is only 3pm and I still have dinners to make, bathrooms to clean, floors to vac and then get myself ready for the plane. All while keeping it a secret from my son. If he found out we were going without him I don't think he would ever get over it. We have been talking to him about moving to Thailand alot and he knows what is happening and is very excited to get on the "big plane". He is so cute, everyday he asks me if we are going to Thailand today. He has no concept of time. At least he isn't going on and on about Santa now.
So back to our trip, we leave tonight very late, so we land about 6am tomorrow morning and we have the whole day to get stuff done. The plan would be to sleep on the plane, but aside from me knocking myself out with sleeping pills I don't think I will be getting any shut eye. Hubby is more excited about being on a plane with no kids than of the actual trip.
We are only going for 5 days to check out neighbourhoods to live in and to meet the new employers. We didn't have to book for anything so far which is a major relief to me. The director is going to pick us up at the airport and take us to a hotel. I feel a bit special really. Just pack and go.
Hubby doesn't understand all the work involved in us leaving the kids for 5 days. He doesn't realise that you cant leave your house filthy, no food in the fridge and no "how to" lists for taking care of the baby. There is alot involved in taking care of someone elses kids and I want it to be as easy as possible. I just pray to whoever is up there that the baby sleeps through.

I am so pumped, I cant believe we get to go away to such a great place, child free. I am sooo needing this break. I love my babies beyond imagination and I will miss them dearly, but I know that a break for just us 2 to be alone is definitely needed.

We never had a honeymoon, we just got married and started having kids straight away and I really do regret not taking the time to just learn how to be married and learn more about the man I married. Some people say nothing changes once you get married, but I don't believe that. For some reason, people do change. Not for the worse (not in our case) but some of the spark seems to go, and I find its really hard to maintain that feeling of what it felt like when dating someone new and special. I truly believe them when they say that marriage is work, just not back breaking hard work I hope.

So off we go and I know I will have plenty to write about when we get back.