The best laid schemes

The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men,
Gang aft agley,
An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain,
For promis'd joy!
--Robbie Burns
(Translation: The best laid schemes of Mice and Men, oft go awry,And leave us nothing but grief and pain, For promised joy!)

Unbelievable! Here I was, alone at home for a week with no kids or husband and how many blog entries did I manage? A measly two entries! Pathetic.
Now how did I manage to get a week to myself sans my usual motherly/wifely responsibilities, you ask? And no, we're not on our way to divorce, with seperate vacations and all that. It's just that having left everything til the last minute, I managed to find someone for Orest to ski with, but it was my friend Lisa's huband on his own with 3 kids. (Lisa doesn't ski, so this has been a long-standing tradition in their house for Dad to go with the girls on his own.)
So I thought, "What am I doing being the only woman on a self-service holiday with 6 kids and 2 men...am I crazy?" So I inisisted that Orest would be better off without me and that I'd be happy to stay home on my own.
I was worried about the standard of care that the girls would receive under the Laissez-faire attitude of their Dad when it comes to things like: nutrition, clothing and general care, but in the end I traded those worries for a week of relaxation and a compromise of bringing them home alive, if not well.
So, how did Orest do? He had a lot to contend with, such as the flight landing after the rental car agency had shut and waiting for a shuttle bus at midnight which never arrived; Adriana couldn't control her bladder on the slopes one day; and Adriana wanting to eat nothing but fries for the entire week ("Cuz everthing else is yucky!" so she said.). So he was rather pleased with his performance and I was just extatic that they were home with nothing more than a sore or two on their faces (Adriana scab under the eye from a pole injury; Larysa scabbed over lip from chapping and Stefanie with a major zit scab on her chin - although it could have been mistaken for a pole injury as well).