Waves the White Flag

I know today is day 3 of the Thirty Things and I should be blogging about my relationship with my parents {which is awesome by the way}But today I just can't.  Because today I am waving the white flag.  This whole grown-up thing?  Yeah I'm over it. 

It's been a long week to begin with.  Emmy still on her antibiotic, Charlie has barely been sleeping since she caught our cold/cough, and I've been sleeping even less because I've been taking care of babies and I have my own terrible cough to deal with.

And then yesterday, right after Skip left to work a sixteen hour shift, this happened.

Out of no where this massive branch came tumbling down.  Thank God though no one was outside and it missed our shed and the girls playhouse!  Still annoying to deal with since I now have to go outside with the dogs when they go out to make sure they don't hang out under the totally unstable branch still hanging on, waiting to crush them.  And every time I look at the darn thing I just see $$$ for how much it will cost to be removed.

But really, that wasn't too big a deal overall.  We had a good afternoon, I was able to make homemade mac and cheese for dinner, and gave them both a bath.  Then I put the girls to bed and start doing a little cleaning.  At 10:30 Charlie woke up screaming, and continued to do so until midnight.  Just screaming.  She didn't want milk, I gave her some Tylenol for her teeth, a teething ring, toys, rocked her, sang to her, walked around with her...she didn't want nothin'.  She just screamed.  Then promptly passed out from exhaustion.  {I know think she's just constipated so we're pushing juice like crazy today}

So I went downstairs, finished mopping my half done floors, took the dogs out, and headed to bed around 1.  Which would have been an okay time to go to sleep....except Charlie kept waking up about every 45 minutes, crying for 5 minutes, then falling back to sleep.  I never had to go in there to get her, but it was enough that I couldn't sleep.  Then Emmy woke up from 3:30 till almost 4:30, just sitting in her bed playing and reading books.  Again I didn't have to go in there, but she's loud enough I couldn't sleep. 

I probably fell asleep around 5:00 and the girls were so lovingly up at 7:30.  So ouch.

AND THEN when I went to go get Emmy, I noticed that she was COVERED in a red rash.  Awesome.  After a little Googling and a call to the on-call doctor, it looks like my girl is allergic to peanuts AND amoxicillin.  So we have to stop the meds, give her Benedryl, and bring her to the doctor tomorrow. 

So today? I'm done.  I don't want to be a grown-up anymore.  I would like to lie on a tropical beach somewhere and fall asleep in the sun for approximately 12 hours...waking only to flip over every hour to get an even tan and drink a fountain Diet Coke.

But since I don't think the girls are *quite* old enough to fend for themselves, the fact that Skip took off today is the next best thing.  Life=1 Mandy =0