Kids Say the Darnest Things

[beatymomof2]

So it was a long morning for me.  I had to keep going to my son's (11 months old) room between 4 and 5 because he kept waking (except it wasn't really waking more like he was uncomfortable so he'd move and make noise and want his bottle).  Finally at 5 I just gave up my thoughts of getting a little more sleep before my alarm went off and got him out of bed.  At around 5:20 I hear my daughter crying so I go to check on her only to find that she is not in her bed.  She is on top of her stuff animals crying because she got lost in her own room.  So I comfort her and by this time she is wide awake, so I turn Alladin on the tv for her to watch at which time my son is getting cranky - so back to bed for him. At 5:45 my alarm goes off, time to get ready for work.  It doesn't take me long I get my clothes on, teeth/hair brushed, etc.  I come out to the living room and sit next to my daughter so I can shut the computer down. 

She looks at me and tells me to take that off (refering to my uniform).  She starts crying saying she doesn't want me to go to work.  I start crying as well because I know that she just wants to spend time with me just like I do her.  My last days off were the 1st and 2nd and we had a baby shower, 2 hrs of driving, and the fair/demo derby - so in reality I haven't spent a decent weekend with her since June because every weekend in July was busy with wedding/parade, chicken days, writer's retreat, worked, than the last weekend I had off.  Soon I tell her.  I have to work this weekend, than we have my son's 1st birthday party the following weekend, than i have 2 work for 2 or 3 more weekends and than I will no longer work weekends unless I volunteer.