I'm So Excited

This week at I Heart Faces, the theme is excited...

Right now I am very excited, actually. As I am writing this, I am looking forward to an entire 24+ hours without the hooligans. I am also a little sad, too. Well, ok, I was trying not to cry when I left them at Nanny's house. I was thinking, am I crazy? I've been looking forward to this break since Grandma offered to keep the kids. Why am I crying? There will be no one to spit up on me, no diapers to change, no one to scream and cry, no one stealing another someone's paci, no one scaling every surface in the house, no one wanting to eat every three hours, no one putting their dirty clothes into the dryer, no one throwing things at my while I'm driving, no one playing in the toilet...I could go on for days. It's going to be so...boring, without this excited, chubby-cheeked girl around. :)
Boring in a good way, of course. But I am going to miss my two terribly. Even if it is only for 24 or so hours. They fill up our house with so much chaos energy, and when they are not here we realize even more how blessed we are to be taking care of these two crazy hooligans for these few years. I would like to think the kids are missing me, too. But Merrick just yelled "Bye, Mommy!" as we left and went back to chasing Nanny's dog, and Tirzah was definitely unaware of my departure snuggled up with Nanny. They didn't look sad, but just like me I'm pretty sure they were just trying to cover it up. ;)