My valuable time

As bleary-eyed me stumbled from bed LATE this morning (my bad), tripping over piles of unfolded, clean laundry (my bad), and sought to hound bleary-eyed children from the safety of their beds (bumping directly into sunshiney Gabby on the way-- sorry Gab, my bad), a whisper of a thought danced in the recesses of my mind, a whisper whose message rose, gaining power and force, taking voice and becoming a whirlwind, twirling and building until it ripped through my being like a tornado, tearing down the shreds of sleep, it's message leaving me quivering and exultant: it's friday, It's Friday, IT'S FRRRRRIIIIIIDDAAAAAAYYY!!!!!

Suddenly I was moving with purpose.

My petulant voice became commanding.

My body moved with the confidence of a three-star general. UP! OUT! ONWARD!

This day, this foggy, groggy, slow-moving day was the beginning of something huge in my life. Something fantastic and special and I'd be damned if I was going to let the sloth-like demeanor of six (well, five-- Gabby was already up) kids impede my purpose. Not Today. Today is amazing and special and should be treated like a national holiday and is so personal and near and dear to me that Today shall be capitalized henceforth.

Because Today is also the FIRST day of a 3 day-- BRACE YOURSELF-- kid-free weekend.

WHOOOO effing HOOOO, baby!!!! I love my runts, but for the first time in months, literal MONTHS I tell you, PIC and I will have (ohmyGAWD if I put it into words, will it jinx it? Will it somehow not happen, dissappear, be consumed by the needs of others like the last 3 dates we had planned???) time. alone. together.

NOT running-to-the-store-grocery-shopping-together alone time.

NOT finally-laying-down-at-10:30pm-OH-THERE-YOU-ARE-I-REMEMBER-YOU-and-I-LIKE-YOU -ZZZZzzzzz alone time.

But actual unfettered, weekend-long ALONE TIME.

Oh yeah, baby. No kids-- just him, me, alone in the house, some wine, a warm, crackling fire, some witty banter and you know what that leads to...

... I finally get to finish that book I've been reading.

Giddy!