Close, Yet so Far Away

As most of you know we were in FL living until this past summer when we moved back to MI to be closer to family. We lived with my parents for about 5 months and were definitely ready to be out on our own, but now we're 2 hours away from my parents and about 3 1/2-4 hours away from R's parents. It seemed closer than when we were in FL but lately it's been feeling just as far away. Sure, we get to see family more than we did when we were living down there but I imagined it to be much more than it's currently playing out to be. My mom left today and everything seemed to just go down the drain! I can't even pinpoint what exactly it is, but things just seem to go MUCH better when she's here. Little man was flipping out left and right today, peed all over his cloth living room chair, hit me in the eye and knocked out my contact, had the biggest meltdown to date when we were grocery shopping, and I've just been emotional through out all of it. It was so much easier with my mom here to help. It actually made our daily tasks, such as playing outside more enjoyable because there was someone to actually talk to and spend time with.

I guess maybe it's coming down to the fact that I don't have a car and I feel like a prisoner in my own home. It was so nice having her here and having a car to go places in, take for my dr. appt, and just being able to get out and about farther than what I could walk on foot around our subdivision. Maybe it's also setting in that I'm going to have TWO and no car!!! Not that I want to take two out by myself anyway because Little Man is such a handful but I feel like I'm going to be more trapped having two kids in the house all day long by myself. I just got to thinking this weekend that some people have their parents down the street or very close and I'm beginning to wish that were the case in my life. I know, two hours isn't that far and I shouldn't be complaining but it's really been feeling like WAY too far lately.

On a good note R and I got to socialize a lot this weekend. We went to the neighbor's house and played cards on Friday night until WAY too late. It was fun but I could have used some more sleep! Last night, my good friend had a couples Euch.re party with a white elephant gift swap afterwards and that was SO much fun! We had such a good time. It started early so we actually got home by 10pm, which was nice so I could get a reasonable amount of sleep. Oh and I came in 2nd in the tournament so that was cool, although it was just luck.