Tomorrow is Caroline's last day of preschool. Twice a week for the last ten months, I've raced home from dropping her off, put William down for his nap, thrown a load of laundry in the wash, made myself a cup of tea, flipped on Ellen, and enjoyed an hour or two of blissful "me time." I've used the time to cook meals for friends with new babies, blog, edit pictures, make giant pots of soup, and catch up on my volunteering obligations. Some days I've just chatted on the phone with a friend or read a good book. It's been a small slice of heaven in my busy weeks, and I'm mourning it's passing.
Next year, Caroline will go to her new preschool three days a week, but it won't be the same for me since William won't be taking a morning nap any longer. I'm looking forward to having all that time with my best boy - we're going to take some classes together, have lots of play dates, and just enjoy one-on-one time. And the year after that, I already have William signed up for the "playschool" that Caroline attends now, so I'll have two mornings a week truly to myself (unless, of course, we decide to have another baby and throw a giant wrench in that plan :) ). So the "end" is in sight. But oh, how I will miss my quiet mornings.
PS - We have two fun activities scheduled with Caroline's school buddies, so I'll be posting lots of pictures about those soon, and writing about her experience at school this year. Since it's not, you know, all about me. :)
2 comments:
Whatever. It's always about us. Always. ;)
you know this is exactly how i felt a month ago when school got out, especially how was i going to get my house cleaned! but now things are so busy that i am reading your post thinking, oh yeah, i was mourning the loss of that me time, too. hm, what happened to that? so i guess the good thing is that if your summer turns out to be at all like ours, you will be too busy to remember that you are missing the time to yourself:)
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