Saturday, July 25, 2009

Smile yourself happy

I've finally bitten the bullet and plunked down a lot of cash to book a house for a 'vacation' with the triplets. I picked a lovely 5 bedroom house on the Russian River, which is only about an hour and a half from here. It's also only 30 min north of the grandparent's house in Petaluma, so I'm not stretching too much. All hell breaks loose and we can come scurrying home with our tail between our legs. Being only 30 from the in-laws also means if we forget things we are easily in reach of it or a walmart at any time. And if they fall and crack their fool heads, we are 15-30 from the nearest big town with a hospital.

Now where the nearest mental ward is I am not sure.

Triplets preparing their lounge chair act

In any case, I am trying to put a positive attitude on for this, since it scares me silly to be 10 days without a nanny to help out. I am contemplating ways to have help come but other than conscripting friends, I'm not sure. But I'm certain I have to be the positive one or it will go to heck for sure. If momma ain't happy....you know? So I'm going to try an experiment. This might shock some of you who know me well, but I'm going to try not to think of everything that could go wrong and I'm going to put a smile on and arrive like we're going to have the best time ever.

Think it'll work, this brain transplant idea? Because I never think of my worst case scenario thinking as a truly bad thing. Just know I'm always prepared for the worst and if the best happens, how great. Is it really worse to think the worst and then truly enjoy when you're wrong or than to think the best will happen and sometimes be disappointed? I don't know. In high school I was voted most pessimistic. So I believed I was. But in recent years I figured out it's not actually true. I am quite the optimist in most situations. What people misunderstand about me is that my sarcasm and dry sense of humor picks out the terrible things, the possible nightmares, the dark stuff, and uses that as fodder. So my jokes are negative, dark or possibly pessimistic. I'm not.

There are a few people in my life who have just not gotten this. They are not my friends ever if for long. If you think I'm just a complainer and griper, why would you want to be my friend? But is it their lack of sense of humor that is the problem or am I sometimes too much to take? Hard to say. Sure it annoys me when someone tells me I'm too negative or to lighten up. But I usually am just shocked. I'm sitting there at a wedding saying I hope the bride doesn't notice that the waiters just screwed up and someone thinks I'm being negative. Um, I'm empathizing with the bride? Or possibly I'm having a little fun making fun of the waiter? Or possibly I'm just making conversation? Or, heck, maybe I'm being a little snarky, but that's not a crime.

But I digress. I am a positive person or I would not be surviving triplets. I am a positive person or my mom would have me in the psych ward right along side her sometimes. I am a positive person because despite my misgivings, in three weeks I am packing up my entire house into a minivan and heading north for a week. Wish me luck.

4 comments:

  1. Happy SITS Saturday Swapfest! I am the name after yours on the comment list. I am a parent of married children now and loved reading the refreshing stories of babies again. I miss those days. (I will deny ever saying that.) I think all mom's have those days. I was 14 hours away from my mom and lived next door to mom-in-law. Life was difficult to say the least on all fronts. I had a set of Irish twins (13 months difference in age) and then one 10 years the oldest ones junior. Two families at one time. I wish you tremendous luck heading north for a week. I wish any mom luck...but especially one with multiples. You are my hero!

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  2. I think you are fabulous and real. How you do it, with three, I have not a clue. I dont know the coordinates on nearest mental lab but shall I find the nearest liquor store for you? LOL.

    I hope you have the BEST time Mira!

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  3. Thanks so much for visiting my blog today! Your three angels are just adorable. And I think of you as very blessed and brave for taking this ten day trip, and I'm just sure you'll have a blast. And don't worry about those who think you're a negative person... you know how you are and that's all that matters. I hope you have a great weekend!

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  4. It'll be fun! You'll be fine! I say this b/c it's not me and won't be ever b/c I won't even take mine camping for the weekend w/o enlisting Mimi and Papa and I don't even have triplets or twins or any two kids that share a bday. Just one set of wild, crazy, different aged boys. You'll be fine:)

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