New Years

Well, I finally had a night out like the old days and LOVED IT! I have been planning this night for months. in early September I reserved my sister inlaw on new years eve so that she would watch my children. I am a girl who cannot have fun unless my children are well taken care of. After I talked to my sister inlaw, I purchased tickets- before we even knew who was playing- and booked my hotel room.

The day was much better than I had even hoped, other than I did not get any sleep! We dropped the kids off at 9 am and went to breakfast, bought lottery tickets and then headed to the marriott marquis to watch the parade and head up to visit some friends of mine that volunteer at the Chickfil a bowl hotel- which is the marquis where we arugued on whether to take a nap or go to lunch first. Brian wanted to go to lunch and then nap- so we went to lunch. Unfortunately we were both unable to fall asleep for a nap- so we watched tv and then got ready for the game. I had wanted to take a nap and then have linner!

Earlier in the day, when Brian decided to go to lunch first, I decided to wear my cute outfit- my sweater dress and high heeled boots. I did not want to go to a nice resturant in my jeans and sneakers, but since I had been planning to wear my nice outfit to linner and then to th game, I was not happy about having to change so early. But, since I rarely wear heels anymore, walking around the city and then to and from lunch my feet were killing me, so I was happy to not have worn them to the game- that would have killed me! Especially since both teams' fans stood most of the game!

We met up with some friends at the game, and we also helped support a friends kids softball team with my beer purchase! We left at the end of 3rd quarter because south carolina barely showed up! As we were leaving the stadium we saw two women begging for money- one had a 3-4 month old and the other had a 2 year old and that just about broke my heart and got me all worked up and I was not ready to go to bed- so we went to mehans so we could have a snack and I could have a drink. After leaving there, we headed to the hotel for theh midnight toast in the lobby and then headed up to my friends suite.

I was tired and was just getting ready to leave when more people came in, so Brian went down to our room and I told him I would see him in 30 minutes.... that was not the case, as that was 1:30 am and I did not get to our room until 4:47am. I was VERY tired, but since one of my major issues since I have had since having children is lack of socialization, I had to take advantage of the opportunity to hang out and talk it up with people I have not seen much of in years. I just do not have opportunity to go out much. I have been pregnant or with new born for 3 plus years now. And with Brian working and me having the kids. by the time I could go out, I am way to tired to do so. But since I was already out and the kids were taken care of, I just could not leave until finally at 4:45 I felt like I was not going to be able to keep my eyelids open much longer, I headed to my room.

It was 23 hours that i had been awake, because my kids got up at 5:45 the morning before. By the time we got them home on Saturday, it was late in the afternoon and they were tired and grumpy as was I. luckily they went to bed early, except the baby was up most of the night and of course made for a long day the next day. I will say, I do not regret staying up even though I am so exhausted... but do not plan on doing anything like that for a long time!