Fusterated..

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I am going NUTS! I think our camping trip is "tentatively" planned for every year, the first week the kids are out of school...No biggie. Well, at least that is what I thought...I have been buying food, preparing the water system, and buying missing supplies since February. This isn't MY vacation. Now, there is 2 days left till we leave, and I don't want to go. I could care f***ing less. I am tired of all the work I put into it, just to meet someone else's new itinerary. I'm the mom. It is always my job to cook, plan, yada yada...but by the time I get there, I don't want to go, I have already gone camping in my head so many times in trying to get there, that I am camped out.So today, I have to cook, gotta smoke a pork roast, and a tri tip, have to make potato salad (I can't make one less than 15lbs!!). Possibly a pasta salad (which, I came up with a really good recipe so now everyone wants more)....My manthing is working, so he isn't really around, so I have to hook up the trailer this afternoon, and be ready for him to help load it tonight, (with the exception of the iceboxes that I will have to do tomorrow while he is gone)...And that is only because I totally insisted that if he was going to drive, he got to load...I wasn't going to be responsible for him tumbling something out..All of it seems to fall on me. And he is insistent on leaving as soon as he gets off work Friday. Today is the last day of school for the kids, so I haven't even had them around to do some of what they have to do, tonight is going to be hell! I don't want to cook dinner...but someone has to...I sure as hell don't want to deal with making sure they are fed tomorrow too!!!Chime in, make me feel better that I am not the only one who runs things through my head so many times that I already did it...and I also want to know, if it is just the way it goes, that when one parent works, all of the rest of life falls on the parent who doesn't...and where do I send this long hair that I keep pulling out? Will Locks of Love take it?

Yeah yeah, but what do I do with the hair?I take on a lot, just because I know that for a little over a month, I won't have ANY kids...that is my vacation, I will still have the garden and animals to tend to, but it is much easier than kids!!! Especially when the 11yr old is getting to the point where she thinks she can call the cops on us...I need the month more than I need the camping!!!

LMAO! Shave the head, and stop shaving the rest of me? OR, if I just start drinking at 2pm, he will HAVE to cook if he is hungry...he just hates burnt chicken...

I can KIND OF relate. In a little less than 2 weeks Adam and I are vacationing to South Beach, FL. I'm the one in charge of making the list of everything we need to pack and need to buy. It's up to me to pack everything and make sure Adam doesn't forget any important things. And in the mean time I have to take care of my own things for the trip as well as go tot he gym 5 days a week (gotta get that beach body!) and tanning so I don't burn to a crisp in the Miami sun. Adam hasn't done a thing for the trip except getting on-line and actually booking the trip lol. Adam is just not good at the planning and organization. I have been trying to make him more efficient but not helping him out as much. But I just cannot do it in this situation because if he ends up forgetting something it's going to stress him out on the vacation, which will just stress me out, and thus neither of us will have any fun.So though not as extreme as your scenario I can relate to a point.

Do ya run the trip through your head over and over, trying to make sure you have covered every possible scenario? That is what I keep doing, and then I remember, "Oh yeah, last year we didn't have X"...I'm done camping I have gone in my head, at LEAST 500 times...lolIt is not as extreme, only because you don't have the pack of kiddo's to worry about too...but it is similar.

Originally Posted By: PepsiChaserDo ya run the trip through your head over and over, trying to make sure you have covered every possible scenario? OMG yes!! Everyday ALL day long! I keep double-checking my lists, and checking the pre-packed luggage etc. I'm going to need the vacation just to vacation from all pre-vacation planning LOL. Trying hard not to stress myself out over it, but very hard. I’ll stress myself out on the plane ride too running everything over in my head hoping I grabbed everything, even though if I do remember something we forgot there is nothing I can even do about it lol.Right now I am still trying to find a friend who can stay at my place for the 8 days we'll be gone to take care of the dogs and water the garden for us. And of course this is also my sole responsibility to handle.

Originally Posted By: NtroducingMyself

I'm going to need the vacation just to vacation from all pre-vacation planning LOL.

Right now I am still trying to find a friend who can stay at my place for the 8 days we'll be gone to take care of the dogs and water the garden for us. And of course this is also my sole responsibility to handle.

I feel SO much better already..lol. I have to deliver doves to a friend while I am gone, and the doggies are going with, (so I need everything for them too). I spent a small fortune on timers for the garden so that will happen while I am gone...No one wants to stay out here in BFE.

Awe crap! I forgot, I am going to have the trailer hooked up tonight...I don't want to take the doves out there tomorrow with the trailer on...I sure hope we get it loaded right so I can unhook!

Yeah the dogs and garden is stressing me out a bit, so far the friends I have asked are also going on vacationing around the same time so it's kind of bad timing. I'm going to call my best friends tonight and see if she'll do it for me. fingers crossed I have also been in charge of doing research on places to visit while we are there as well. So far I have found Miami Seaquarium, Parrot Jungle Island, Vizaya Museum, Haulover Beach (Nude Beach woo hoo!), and Key Biscayne National Park. But mainly I just want to relax on the beach and watch all the hot men... err I mean the beautiful ocean!! heheAnd that's a very good suggestion Rad, I will have to make sure I keep my lists.

LOL, I have so many lists, that I need to keep a list of lists!(or at least a list of where I put the lists)...Eddie, you might look into the timer thing for the garden, and a good kennel for the pups, of course as a last resort, it's always better for them to stay home. I would die if I couldn't take my puppy along!!!!

Yeah I read up on Haulover Beach and I think I'd be more comfortable there being naked. I have always been very self-conscious about my body, so not having a bunch of pretty boys will make me a lot more comfortable lol.We are staying right on the beach in South Beach, so I’ll be seeing plenty of young hotties in their sexy little bathing suits LoL. As for SteveA, I doubt even if he was still on the site I doubt he’d care to meet me in person lol. I have a lot of respect for the guy, but we just didn’t get along.

Yeah even though I have been tanning almost everyday and actually have a decent tan, I know regardless that Sun in FL is going to be brutal. So Sunscreen on the beach is going to be my bestfriend lol.