It's August. Every August we drop our kids off with Richard's Dad and then get a week off. Sometimes we do home renovations, we went to New Brunswick one summer, two summers ago I spent the week off having Braxton-Hicks contractions. The summer after that I chased one kid instead of three.
This year we were supposed to be packing and moving during the kid's holiday. This has not come to pass, so I get to do nothing.
Do you have any idea how wonderful the chance to do nothing is?? I have not been away from my kids for two years. Right now, as I am typing this, I am sipping coffee, there is Irish Soda bread in the oven baking and Weeds, a show I can't watch while kids are awake, is on the TV. Richard is sleeping without anyone fighting outside his door.
Yesterday I lingered over my coffee and newspaper in an empty house and then my Grandma and I shopped for a washer and dryer. I went to three stores. I lingered over things besides washers and dryers. I poked and prodded and pushed buttons. No one nagged me to hurry up. No one tried to break things. No one ran away to reprogram the TVs in the TV room while I tried to find what I needed. The person I was with was happy to be there and was patient as I looked and pondered.
Delicious.
Yes, I will miss my babies by the end of their trip, don't get me wrong. Right now I am enjoying the fact that we ran out of milk yesterday and it was not a big enough emergency to warrant running to the store when I knew it would be mobbed. I am out of coffee now. THAT is an emergency so I guess I will have to go to the store today. I will probably pick up ingredients to make sushi while I am there. Mmmmmmmm California rolls..... (Emmett was super sweet and left his DS behind so I could use the cookbook game he has--that is where my sushi recipe is.)
Now, if you will excuse me, I need to refresh my coffee and get the newspaper.
Richard and I might go to the midway later and go on the big person rides. Or, we might not. Who knows? This weekend, we don't have to plan too far ahead for anything.
Delicious.
3 comments:
That DOES sound a little like paradise!!! I feel like a horrible mother, but I'm seriously looking forward to my youngest being in kindergarten a full, 8-hr day, 2-3 days a week, starting in JUST. FIVE. WEEKS!!!! Ohhhh, the delicious freedom!
FABULOUS! Enjoy it.
I am SO looking forward to the day when grandma and grandpa will offer to take our kids for a week. I often think about all the things I would do with them not under my feet all day. But then quickly realize I would probably waste every day just lying on the couch in front of the tv, doing nothing. Oh well, even that would be a treat these days!
Enjoy your break! I'm jealous!
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