It’s not as though I don’t love my kids and love being with them, but it’s just so rare that I’m by myself for any length of time during the day. Then there was today. My kids, all three of them were at my mother’s, so I could go to a Doctor’s appointment downtown. Amazingly enough I was out of the office in 30 minutes. That never happens, any pediatric appointment takes at least two hours, I have spent literally a total of weeks in the waiting room and examining room over the last 10 1/2 years, but not today. I didn’t even have time to flip through a magazine.
“So what do I do now?” I thought sitting in my car at 10:45 on an absolutely gorgeous day. I could go get my kids, but you know they’re at Grandma’s the last thing they want to see is, well, ME. There is some Easter shopping to do, yard work, and about a million and half other things I could be doing, but you know what I had in my wallet? A membership to the Cleveland Botanical Garden,which is about a mile away from the parking lot. Shhh, don’t tell anyone, I went to the garden and walked around looking at the daffodils and crocuses. I even sat down on a bench and didn’t have to answer to Mom, Mom, Mom, MOM, or chase anyone, shhh, don’t tell anyone. Then the church clock struck 12 and I had to go…
Sometimes life just hands you gifts.
1 comment:
WOW! I am jealous. I recently got braces, and I actually like going to my ortho appointments (because every month I get a whole hour away from the whining and fighting).
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