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Cover1W's picture

Just counting down the last 1.5 hours before I leave work.
It's been insane today (as usual before one leaves for a holiday)...

Going to take myself out for a nice, quiet dinner alone with a book.

SDs have been very good for the last week (but for neither of them showering for a week). Disengaging has been fairly easy b/c I've been so busy. I did make xmas cookies with them though but I put limits on it. Found that SD9 had used almost all the food coloring this summer and didn't tell me so we only had blue and green and NO I'm not going to the store. Here's the colors, here's the sprinkles, deal with it. Not a peep afterwards.

SD9 has been super helpful; helping cook, clean, carry groceries, etc. She's very organized anyway and I think she's realized she can interact with us MORE if she helps. I think she'll be managing her own breakfasts and dinners soon. Just have to get her showering more (at least she washes hands regularly). She's also been a gift wrapping extraordinaire, all hers are done and done really well.

SD12 was only b*Tch! once when asked to carry groceries to the house. That got stopped right away and she did it. She also helped DP with dishes last night AND wants to do her own laundry again. She wants to wrap her gifts with me tomorrow to learn how to do it better.

DP was a little aggravated with me last night when I didn't immediately tell him "how" to fix the sauce for the pasta. Really? I wasn't even planning on cooking dinner (he never asked and already had started it when I got home). I simply handed him a jar of red sauce and walked off. Then I went to bed early.

So dinner to myself tonight, yoga for myself tomorrow, some gift wrapping and movie watching and lots of reading. Then proceed to food / wine / champagne / cookies / nookie and that's a good holiday!

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Cover1W's picture

I have to be back next Monday - Thursday.
Ugh.

But I'm saving vacation time like crazy because I want a LOT of time off next year for fun stuff!
Suffering now for a short time in the name of vacation....

robin333's picture

Lucky you! Have a great time. And thank you for the rum ball recipe. DH may eat all of them before they have aged and before the family arrives. Glad you shared!

Cover1W's picture

I brought extra to work today, quietly, and they were gone by lunch time.
}:)

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Update: SD9s troublesome friend struck again. Broken drawers on kitchen csbinet from being used as ladder. I threw drawer and yelled, I'm sick of things being being broken!

DP apologized and will take care of SD9 and fix. Ef me!