Started off so Sweet and Ended so Sour =/

So I may have mentioned the last time I wrote that John had a 4 day weekend for Presidents Day and Valentine's Day. So my mom had Friday off like usual and decided to come up and watch the kids so John and I could have our Valentine's Day early. We initially planned on going to the Melting Pot, voted #2 most romantic Restaurant in Knoxville, but of course they were booked solid for the whole weekend (probably weeks and weeks in advance!). So we decided to make a spontaneous run up to Ober Gatlinburg to go skiing! I hadn't been skiing since my Freshman year which really wasn't that long ago, but......I was super terrible at it then so I could only imagine how awful I'd be at it now.
John took me up to the highest Professional run there first!!!! Didn't let me have any training or anything first. For God Sakes I couldn't even make it back up the kiddie hill before we went down the first time. I was terrified. It was a 10 min ride up the mountain - farther than the picture can show- and it took us around 30 minutes to get down. Needless to say we stuck to the kiddie trail after that! After a few goes at all that we had gotten a lot better and more comfortable with where we were. So it was all wonderful in the end.
We had so much fun! It was honestly one of the best things we've done since we got married and it tops things like eating in the Space Needle for our anniversary to taking a day trip boat ride up to Canada.

It all went down hill yesterday. We had a super crappy day. I got to sleep in till almost 9 which was the only good thing. I swear every time I try to sleep in John gets the grumps. So he suggested that we go to the TN Aquarium in Chattanooga....Garrett fell asleep early so I took that time to clean up the house, start laundry and wash the sheets then get everyone ready to go. We went to Mr. Gatti's for lunch which was alright and then everyone fell asleep in the car for the rest of the drive, until Garrett woke up right before my exit to get off the interstate. So he cried hysterically for about 10 min and John was no help. He decided to turn around and sit in his chair and just "let him cry it out". Then because I was irritated with all the crying and no help, he decided to not help me with directions in a completely new place that I've never been to or even seen, said that we should go home, yelled at me, etc. So I was irritated the whole way through the aquarium. Chelsea was also grumpy, not wanting to stay with us in the dark, not wanting to look at anything or do anything. Then John didn't want to eat after we got done at the aquarium (5pm) but made me stop at Best buy so he could look for stupid Cd's about some guy rapping making fun of hillbilly's. He got mad that no place had it so I took Chelsea to McD's. Of course he got something to eat! And the whole way home proceeded to tell me that I complain "all the time" and that I'm "never happy". HA! Crazy, right?! He said that all I do is yell at Chelsea and that because I don't bring in money (yet) that I spend too much time on the computer. So the whole 2 hour drive home was spent arguing and when we got home we gave the kids a bath. He got in with them so I went upstairs to make the bed (washed the sheets as said before). Came back to get the kids thinking they'd be done and he said, "What are you doing out there anyway?" I said nothing. He said, "well take him and get back to your facebooking or whatever." I said, "Yeah cause making the bed and doing more laundry is facebooking!"

Seriously a ridiculous day. I just wanted to run away and cry cause I'm so angry and don't know what to do. I hate arguing and having to ask for help. It completely zeros out the fun I had yesterday. Crappy huh?!

So I wrote an email to my mom telling her of my miserable day and how even being able to spend time with our whole family didn't make the day better and like she always does, she tells me that I should just let it roll off my back. I'm a little too prideful for that and sometimes I wish I had the strength of character to do just that and act like it never happened. Maybe today will be a little better and I can say at least we had 2 out of 3! We'll see. I hope you all enjoyed this display of natural married life! At least this is how it is for us sometimes. I hope everyone has a very Happy, Love-filled Valentine's Day.