Yes folks you read that title correctly - I'm skid free for the week!!! Jealous? I completely agree LOL

SO is out of town this week for work & the skids are stuck with their BM! YAY!! Oh trust me, their was a glimmer of hope in SO's eyes when he informed me that he would be going away for work & had to arrange something for the boys. However, I immediately informed him that he would need to let his ex Hippo know she would need to care for Thing 1 & Thing 2 (Gasp! Care for her own children? Who would ever suggest such a thing?!!) the entire time he would be gone. There was no way in H*LL that I was going to be stuck getting both skids up and ready for school and driving them to their bustops (we live in a different school district then the one they attend)all the while lugging my 9 month old infant with us! My mornings would have looked like this: 5:50 am, get Thing 1 up and get him breakfast and out the door by 6:40 am, drive 30 minutes to his bustop, drive 30 minutes home and repeat with Thing 2! Then I would have to drive 30 minutes to pick up Thing 1 at 3 pm and wait 45 minutes for Thing 2's bus to come (because having an infant allows for so much free time!) Then drive everyone home and feed them, make sure they do their homework, check their homework, get them to bed and repeat 4 days this week. Yeah there was absolutely NO way that was happening! SO and I are not married, so I don't feel any real obligation with his children. Yes we live together and have the skids with us every week on alternating days, but I didn't give birth to these kids and I will be damned if I'm going to play the mother role for them, when they have their very own momma pig to take care of them! I don't get to discipline them or make any real decisions where they are concerned so they will absolutely not be allowed to take up any of my time/energy when SO is out of town. It's bad enough I have to put up with them every week! So my week has been AMAZING to say the least! Nothing but me, the baby, and the dog True, the baby slept a total of 3 hours last night, but even that can't bring me off of the no skid high!! The house is clean, there is food in the fridge, there are no brats upstairs screaming as they play xbox live, there is no arguing, no whining (except from my adorable little boy!), no being annoyed, no wanting to lock myself in the bedroom just to get away from them, no need for a bottle of wine or vodka (but a glass of wine or 2 a night never hurt),no need for a bra (lol),and no arguments with SO about his 2 less then perfect kids. Moreover, having SO gone this week has been great as well! It's so nice to have the house to myself and not have to put up with a 40 something year old man who acts like an infant most days! haha Everyone needs a break now and then. It's essential to your well being! So here is to my week of freedom! May it go slowly! Because come Friday the skids are here for the weekend and there isn't a bottle of liquor that is safe from me at this house!