My family has been gone all weekend. I have been alone, a loner, quiet, reflective, sad, lonely, calm, blissful, bored, nesting, lazy, and did I mention ALONE! The silence has been deafening at times. Don't get me wrong, I anticipated this "alone time" and I did enjoy the full night's sleep and the few naps I was able to take and I did make a few plans so I would not turn into a hermit, but it was hard to be alone,don't tell them, but I might have missed them just a little!
I ventured out on Saturday to do a little shopping, came home, took a nap and cleaned the house from the Christmas festivities. The rest of the day and night was spent in my pj's, eating leftover hot dip and chips from Christmas and watching three movies, consecutively, uninterrupted...it was uh...heaven!!
On a side note...I have discovered that if I lived alone I would either be really skinny (cause I almost forgot to eat at all on Saturday and Sunday) and I would be really UNhealthy (cause what I did eat was J.U.N.K, I was too lazy to even make a sandwich!!) I lost all my culinary skills when it came to feeding myself!It was pitiful.
About midnight Saturday I began to get a little lonely, but I went to bed and got over that rather quickly! Sunday brought church and shopping and even a night out at the movies with my friend Stacie. By the time I made it home around 9:30...I was starting to miss the two people who usually run to greet me when I walk in the door, but as luck would have it, my Aunt called and we talked for the next two hours...so my "people" void was filled in a fun way! I got off the phone and watched another movie and then it was bedtime!
Today, after sleeping in until a rare 8 AM, I got up, fed the dogs, cleaned the house and headed out for some more shopping (shh...I got some gift cards for Christmas!!) and then I headed in town to meet an old high school friend for lunch. We reconnected over facebook (like all the rest of the world) and she was in town for the holidays. We figured out that it had seriously been twenty-five years since we had seen each other...WOW -- can we even be old enough to say that phrase? It boggles my mind. She is a wife and mom to a teenage son and she is a living my dream of being a bona fide published writer...I am proud of my friend. It is awesome to see someone reach a life long goal. I am a little jealous that she has actual books with her name on them on book shelves in actual stores, but hey, I have this little blog and you, my ever faithful readers...so I am feeling able to suppress my jealous nature, at least for a while!
My sweet two returned home to me this evening. I had the house clean, dinner cooked and there was never a more grateful wife and mom than I, to see them home, safe and sound and maybe , just maybe, even missing me a wee little bit too!
Living Happily in the Moment!
Beverly
I ventured out on Saturday to do a little shopping, came home, took a nap and cleaned the house from the Christmas festivities. The rest of the day and night was spent in my pj's, eating leftover hot dip and chips from Christmas and watching three movies, consecutively, uninterrupted...it was uh...heaven!!
On a side note...I have discovered that if I lived alone I would either be really skinny (cause I almost forgot to eat at all on Saturday and Sunday) and I would be really UNhealthy (cause what I did eat was J.U.N.K, I was too lazy to even make a sandwich!!) I lost all my culinary skills when it came to feeding myself!It was pitiful.
About midnight Saturday I began to get a little lonely, but I went to bed and got over that rather quickly! Sunday brought church and shopping and even a night out at the movies with my friend Stacie. By the time I made it home around 9:30...I was starting to miss the two people who usually run to greet me when I walk in the door, but as luck would have it, my Aunt called and we talked for the next two hours...so my "people" void was filled in a fun way! I got off the phone and watched another movie and then it was bedtime!
Today, after sleeping in until a rare 8 AM, I got up, fed the dogs, cleaned the house and headed out for some more shopping (shh...I got some gift cards for Christmas!!) and then I headed in town to meet an old high school friend for lunch. We reconnected over facebook (like all the rest of the world) and she was in town for the holidays. We figured out that it had seriously been twenty-five years since we had seen each other...WOW -- can we even be old enough to say that phrase? It boggles my mind. She is a wife and mom to a teenage son and she is a living my dream of being a bona fide published writer...I am proud of my friend. It is awesome to see someone reach a life long goal. I am a little jealous that she has actual books with her name on them on book shelves in actual stores, but hey, I have this little blog and you, my ever faithful readers...so I am feeling able to suppress my jealous nature, at least for a while!
My sweet two returned home to me this evening. I had the house clean, dinner cooked and there was never a more grateful wife and mom than I, to see them home, safe and sound and maybe , just maybe, even missing me a wee little bit too!
Living Happily in the Moment!
Beverly
1 comment:
SO wish I could have joined you! Glad you two had fun!
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