From A Mother's Perspective

On Saturday, my sweet sister invited me up to Richmond for a Girl's Day Out. This was the first time I'd been away from the babies for the entire day, and certainly longest distance I'd been from them. Lindy described our day perfectly, but I thought I'd offer my comments from a mother's perspective. The day was LUXURIOUS.  This used to mean things like long baths, a spa massage or pedicure. Or sleeping in so late that I hit Bojangles at lunchtime... for breakfast. These days, luxury is a meal eaten while sitting down. (It's RITZY if the meal includes utensils.) Luxury is being able to have a complete conversation, start to finish with no interruptions. And generally being able to focus your whole brain on whatever task is at hand, instead of constantly multi-tasking while worrying about why it's so quiet, when the kids eat next and whether you've washed your hair in the last three days.  What fun it was to have no plan, and no schedule. Just time with my sweet sister, remembering the self I was before I became a mom. She's still in there underneath all the mom trappings, and I think I need to coax her out more often...