Summer rocks!!
Picnics, parades, pool parties…
Sweet sweet summertime, baby!
…and pathetic excuses why we leave social events early or even worse, we don’t even show up. Tell me I’m not alone on this!
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It wasn’t long ago that Denny and I were quite the party couple. We were champs when it came to beer-related sports and we often stayed around for Last Call. But with all good things in life, that era came to an end and to be honest I don’t really miss it. Life has become WAY more fun with our Makenzie, but when it comes to the social scene our attendance is dwindling drastically and I don’t know why.
From Monday at 7:20 am to Friday at 5:15 pm, we’re on our A-game. Kenzie gets in her car seat like a champ and we zip around town – baby-sitter, work, work baby-sitter, drive-thru, errands – lather, rinse, repeat x 5. We are generally on-time, generally put together and generally reliable. (Please note the vague nature of the word generally.)
Then Friday evening rolls around and shit gets crazy (excuse my language Mom). We run late for parties, we leave picnics early and sometimes we don’t even make it at all. I can think of two social activities in the past 10 days that we said we would attend yet didn’t even make it out to door. Ugh!
Here’s generally how it works:
- Receive an invite – Absolutely, we’ll be there!
- Social event gets closer – Yay, we’re still planning on it
- Social event day rolls around and inevitably something happens – Fever, puke, unexpected family visits or the inability to wrangle a little munchkin in her carseat without epic meltdown from aforementioned munchkin and/or parents
- Sulk back into house, send obligatory “I’m sorry we suck” text and spend next hour feeling like a rotten friend/sister/neighbor
- Social event Fail!
We’ve become those people. The better ask someone else to bring desserts because the McGees will no show people
Overbooking is partially the reason (my fault completely), but the other part of this is a complete mystery to me. Frankly it’s quite embarrassing. Is this normal for new-ish parents? How the heck do we drop the ball so much on the weekends? Does this get better? Or will our sub par reliability levels earn us a spot on the B list or even worse the no list?
To our remaining friends (are you still out there?) we miss you and we hope that we can see you soon! I’m sorry we’ve blown you off. It’s not you, it’s us (I swear!). But we just don’t how do we fix it?!? Help!! Any suggestions, let me know.
Slacker love,
Erin (the once reliable, turned flaky Mom)
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