Me time

Me time is something I never use to get, it's a foreign concept for me.  I am the one that doe the laundry and the shopping; the cooking and the cleaning; the mothering and the fathering, the good little wifey that stays home and does all that can be done including the farming and the animal husbandry; the selling and the marketing, everything and more.  So me time is not something there's just any time for.

And now there is.  It' not that I have any less to do, it's just that every other weekend all my little people disappear to there dads for 48 hours.  In that 48 hours I still have to do the farming and the selling, but after that?    At around 3:30 Saturday afternoon, I go into me mode.  I read a book, I talk on the phone, I go shopping, or for a bike ride.  In the evening I have to do the farm chores sure, but afterwards?  I shower and go out.  It is great to go somewhere and talk to someone, or watch a sports game, or have someone else cook you dinner and not have to think about the dishes for once.  And then Sunday morning?  I sleep, I sleep as long as I want, if I wake up before 10, I turn over and go back to sleep and then I take more me time, right up till about 4 in the afternoon.  Sure I still have laundry to do and piles of dishes, bills to pay and toys to put away, but all that can wait.  Me time comes around for a fleeting period of time and taking that break makes it so much easier to meet the demands of daily life for the next 2 weeks.

Everyone deserves a little me time.

summer days

Summer is going by fast and I am keeping the kids and myself way to busy this year, but in a way that is new to all of us.  We are doing things that are fun!  The kids are taking classes, the farm is keeping me on my toes, the sun is kissing our faces and we are enjoying life to the fullest.  It is a positive change that is rewarding me with smiles, and "thanks mom"'s and building up good memories in their little heads.

4 days a week we rotate between golf and tennis followed by swimming classes, once a week while they are in class I head over to by secret diner for some grown up talk and gossip.  We see the libraries summer performances, the evening concerts in teh park, we go swimming in teh afternoon, and watch movies when it rains ( which we really need by the way).  The kids have there lemonade stand the weekends they come with me to market, and get to do a little farmers market shopping, Some have gone to camp and some have yet to go, we are readying for fair, and fattening the pigs while training up this years show cow some more.

Thinking ahead to fair week and football practices and what adventures we can get in before school starts again in the fall.