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May 13, 2012

Happy Mother's Day


Today is mother’s day. I have been “celebrated” on this day for the past 7 years. It took me a six years to learn but I did things differently this year. I took the day off.

After most Mother’s Days being spent at some over hyped family outing with the hot sun,relatives that make me anxious and kids that get hot, hungry and over tired – I said enough. Actually, my lovely husband did it for me and with a sigh of relief, I said that I too was thinking I should spend the day on my own. He could take the kids to see his parents, to church, etc… I could do whatever I wanted. So… I did just that.

It was so nice to not worry about whether the grandma’s were having a nice time, chasing after kids and not relaxing one bit but having to say what a lovely meaningful day it was. Instead, I did some shopping though I bought nothing but lunch.  I did witness plenty of mom’s trying to enjoy a little outing with their kids – forgetting that kids and antique stores don’t really mix. I just sipped my coffee and browsed while the poor things had to bark at their kids every 10 seconds to not touch that, don’t run, no you can’t buy that $200 lamp.

I had two people scoff at the idea that I wanted to spend Mother’s Day without my family. I love my three children dearly but I get plenty of quality time every day. It is not often that I get time on my own where I don’t feel the need to rush home to relieve a sitter or grandma or to help out my husband. It was nice to have 6 hours to drive around stop here and there and not once text to make sure all was okay. Don’t get me wrong, it was hard not to text but I didn’t…well, unless I was texted first.

It also helped that my lovely 5 year old threw a nice tantrum this morning as I tried to do her hair for church. She made it very easy to push all three of the kids out of the door and say see you at 5.  I suppose that was her Mother’s Day gift to me.

Welcome


So here I am. This is my third blog. I start them, get some readers and something comes up and I stop posting. That something has usually been a new baby and since I am not anticipating another of those, I figured I might as well give myself a Mother’s Day gift and start again. We’ll see….