A Weekend All to Myself!

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Two things you might not know about me.

1. I don’t carry keys.  I never have a key to my house and I only have my car key if I’m actually driving it.  I just don’t need them because I’m always either with other people that have keys to what I need or someone is home to let me in.

2. I almost never know what day it is.  Monday, Thursday….it’s all the same.  There’s no big weekend to look forward to since James works almost every day.  We do have a few rituals like Friday night pizza & movie or Saturday family worship.  But again….people remind me so I just carry on like it’s another day until I smell the bacon cooking or hear the kids discussing what movie to watch that night.

Growing up I didn’t think I would be this kind of person.  The kind that just wanders around from thing to thing not concerned about being able to get into her house or what time it is.  I think it’s like being on a sinking ship…..every kid that got added to the family bought such joy and delight, but if I didn’t dump some other thing out of my mind and schedule I would sink.

So out went the car keys and the calendar.

This weekend I am going to have to carry both because James has decided, in an effort to end my fussing about not being able to work on my book with all of these people and keys around, to send me off for a couple of days.  I’ll be off the grid from now until Sunday.  No emails, no Facebook, no phone calls.  Just me, my writing and if all goes well, Sonic ice.  A whole weekend all to myself!

It’ll be like a little cocoon and hopefully a beautiful butterfly will emerge in the form of a complete rough draft.  But that may require dumping some more things off of the ship….like grocery shopping.  Or showering.

While I’m gone the girls have some assignments lined up to get their room makeover finished.  We are in the final stretch of that project and it looks awesome!  Hopefully we’ll have the big reveal by the end of next week.  I’m chomping at the bit to show it to you. I spent some alone time this afternoon with the ruffle attachment on my sewing machine and we made a deep connection.  I love that thing.  It took the dread of making ruffles out of my life and for that I will be forever grateful.

I hope you all have a great weekend.  If it’s the weekend.  I’m not completely sure.

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  1. I hope you get a lot of writing done and enjoy yourself….

    There is the possibility that you won’t get anything accomplished because you are so used to the noise and activity of your home that the quiet will be a huge distraction!

    Can’t wait to see the girls room!

  2. Go go go!!! So excited for your alone time this weekend and so with you on the sinking ship and dropping the non-essential weight. Love how you put it that way, makes me feel less absent minded 🙂 Good luck with your writing, hope you save some time for a nice long uninterrupted nap. See you when you come out of your cocoon.

  4. Hope you’ve had a fabulous weekend!
    In this day and age everyone is talking about margins and simplifying and minimalism and whatever – giving up your calendar and keys says you have been way ahead of the game.
    I know just what you mean about needing to let something go as each baby arrived in the family — I often say that with each child, I assigned them a small portion of my brain — many times I have needed a bit of information and a quick glance at a particular child will prompt them to fill in the blank for me. How cool is that!
    Blessings!

    1. My kids do that too! I’ll forget a word and look at them with this, “Help me,” look and they’ll find the word for me. Sometimes I will try to explain that I haven’t always been this way, but they just give me that, “Right, Mom, sure you haven’t,” look like they want to pat me on the head. Oh well, they’ll find out for themselves soon enough. Lisa~

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