Time out wonders

It's been a most harrowing week or so. Jordan's been sick since before National Day. As has Muffin. And it's been draining on me. This was especially so over the long weekend because there wasn't school to send Evan, the non-sick one to.

I am not a good Mommy when I am stressed and stretched and that was the case over the long weekend because of the illnesses, the whininess associated with the illnesses and the constant ploys for attention. This made me short even when I knew I shouldn't be. It is times like that, that remind me that I cannot be a Stay At Home Mom.

Even Packrat suffered the wrath of an overstretched and as a friend coined "tensional" mom.

Today, I met up with 2 very good friends and we sat and had tea, despite the fact that I had a sick girl at home and a baby boy that I missed. But I was glad I chose to indulge in that instead of going home. Despite the guilt I felt at choosing to do that, I knew that Jordan was in good hands and Packrat was home with Muffin and he would be fine as well.
















So I sat, drank tea, indulged in pretty, delicate foods, laughed a lot and looked out at a pretty waterfall watching the koi swim around in the rock pool at the bottom of the waterfall. The only child related thought I had while gazing out was how much Evan would have been plastered to the glass window watching the waterfall cascade.

It was a strange sight as we made our way out of the coffee house after; what with my two friends being in somewhat advanced stages of their pregnancies. And how we must have looked, each driving off in a 'Mommy-mobile' back to our respective broods. I don't know about them but I felt wonderfully recharged after that 2 hour sojourn away from the realities of motherhood. Enough for me to be happy to see the twins, chat with them all the way home, get them into bed, play with Muffin and get him settled too before sitting back and writing this.

And even now, as I begin to fade and the fatigue of the week blurs my eyes, I am still filled with the residual endorphins from my afternoon out.

I need to do this more.


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