For a day that started off like this:

Will you make me some coffee?

No!

But I thought you loved me?

I do. That’s why I’m saving you from poison in your coffee cup by simply refusing your ridiculous request.

People it was 5am on a Saturday. Does he really think that because he wants to get up that early that I want to be up making coffee? I’m they type of person that once I get out of bed and start moving around at all, I cannot get back into bed and fall asleep. This problem kills me in the middle of the night when one of the kids wakes up. It’s hours before I can sleep again.

But I digress. It is going to be a great day - even with the way it started. Today is the day that Jeff and I send the kids to a babysitter for the day and go off and do all of our Christmas shopping together. We do this every year. Its a tradition and one that I love. We take a day in December and spend the whole time shopping for our children and a little for ourselves ;) We end it by going out to dinner. It’s an entire day alone together and we always have fun and laugh a lot. No stress to ruin it just good times.

Marriage is tough. Marriage when you have a lot of children is really tough. Most days its impossible to have a conversation without it being interrupted 25 times. Someone always needs something and it always requires one of us. Because they’re still young. It’s very hard to connect this way when you can only have disjointed conversations. It’s also hard to find a babysitter that will watch 4 children for you. As they’re getting older its getting a little easier but still…

I imagine as the kids grow up there will be more days like today and then we’ll miss them being little and needing us so much. Maybe. Or not.