I was taking the kids to my parents' house Sunday to Monday to visit and kind of because DH was OOT. I'd been planning this before he was out though. We haven't slept over since Christmas. It happened that niece was also playing soccer in the same town so I took my kids to the game too. At the game I overhear her talking to another soccer mom about how I'm all nervous to be home alone with my kids for a week, but "I've got 3 kids too and it's no big deal. I have no sympathy at all." blah blah blah something about needing my parents to help. She went on for quite some time. Finally I just said that I could hear her and walked away.
Yes, I'm nervous. Yes, I think it's going to suck. I haven't really talked to her about it though. Yes, she has 3 kids, but the youngest is 8. A week alone with them would be nbd. Add the fact that our dad watches her kids one night every other week and my parents drive her kids to soccer games all over creation 3 weekends out of 4- to the point that they even spent a weekend in a hotel for a big soccer tournament. I've been trying to plan this overnight since MAY. It's taken this long because my parents have been helping her with her kids.
The fact that she was essentially bitching about me while I was standing right there really just put the icing on the cake.