This morning I dropped off my daughter at preschool. This is her third day at her school BUT today she gets to go to the extended day program. That means, instead of me picking her up after 2.5 hours I get to pick her up after 5 hours!!! Yes, I said it, FIVE glorious hours!!! Now don’t get me wrong, I LOVE my kids and LOVE being with them. However, as some as you may know, they tend to suck the life right outta you! I get up at 5:30am most days to go to RF and my day continues until about 9pm. No joke! It is non-stop madness. Errands, meal preparation, grocery shopping, banking, cleaning, laundry, pick-up, drop-offs, play dates, etc., etc., until the clock hits 8pm and that is when my kids go nite nite. After bedtime stories and kisses is when I get to work on me, and sometimes it still dosen’t really end there because someone needs some water or someone else is scared and can’t sleep or someone else needs to be fed (like the dog, who is sometimes forgotten about) or someone else is needing some attention. Wink wink, you know who you are! So to say after bedtime it’s my time is kinda an understatement. Typically I don’t relax until around 9:30ish and then I’m falling asleep from pure exhaustion. I have nothing else to give.
Today is such a special day for me! I’ve waited seven years! Yes seven years for both my kids to be gone at school and for me to get some ME time! Whooo Hoooo!!!! Can you hear me shouting that loud and clear!! I could do a dance right now I’m so thrilled!!! ME time!!! Wow, imagine that!
Okay, I am embellishing a little. I have tons of things I could be working on. My new children’s clothing line. My PTA coordinator position, Room Mom responsibilities, banking, cleaning, laundry, you name it, there is a ton of things on my “to do“ list. However, last night I made a conscious effort that this morning after I dropped Carly off I would come home and do something for me, something good for me!
So here I sit blogging. I was happy to hurry home and sit quietly at my computer without any interruptions and be able to blog to my content! No one tugging at my side asking for more apple juice, no one interrupting my thoughts asking me to play catch with them. Nope it’s just me and the dog sitting here as I type. (Thank goodness she is 12 years old and doesn’t seem to need a thing right now!) Yippee for me!! Next item of importance is to plan out my lunch and dinner. I’m actually going to pursue through my cookbooks and write a plan for this weeks dinners. I’m thrilled to think I will be able to accomplish that task more efficiently than ever before!
I’m so excited for my new found freedom. I’m promise myself to each week do something good for myself with this time. Today I even thought about exercising again. Take a walk...imagine that! Me exercising two times in day! It actually sounds good to me!
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