My Margaritaville

Let the countdown begin!  Only four days until I am on vacation.  Where to, you ask?  The Outer Banks.  We have been planning this trip for about a year now and those frozen drinks are finally within reach.  The we part is made up of me, my bestie Sarah, her bestie from college Kelly(who I also love), my twin boys and two teenage daughters, Sarah's two kids, Kelly's two kids, Sarah's mom, Kelly's mom, my mom and mother in law, my two dogs, and Sarah's dog.  Yeah...if you lost count that's three moms, six kids, two teenagers, four grandmas, three dogs, and a partridge in a pear tree.  However, the most important part to take away from that harem is the four grandmas.  Which means that us three tired and harried mommies can take a BREAK!!!!  Thank the gods for grandmas.  I plan to sit either pool side or with my toes buried in the sand drinking pretty much the whole week.  Not that I'm going to go on a bender or anything, just need to maintain that happy medium between really tipsy but still functional.  At least until the young kids are in bed asleep, then I make no promises! 

I have much to prepare for.  I should clean out the van, pack, paint my toenails, and clean the house since my mother in law is coming the night before we leave.  Luckily, I have an awesome mother in law who couldn't care less about the state of my house as long as she gets to see her grand babies. 

Also, I, and the other two moms, are of the mind that it takes a village to raise a child.  So, if one of us sees another's kid doing something wrong we can and will correct it.  To me, that takes soooo much pressure off.  I see some moms, just running after their kids making sure they don't do anything wrong so they won't be confronted with a discipline situation in front of anyone.  Seriously?  Discipline your kids moms, don't leave it just to the dad.  No kid is perfect, and no parent is perfect.  Embrace it and move on. 

I know I keep promising pictures...I am terrible about bringing a camera anywhere.  But we will definitely have pics from the beach for all to see.  I will be the one in the big floppy hat, huge sunglasses, and margarita in hand.  Wait that might be all of us...  I will label.

Do you hear it?  Jimmy Buffett is calling................................