“Mom’s Day”

Basically, this entailed me taking an entire day off from my job as a stay-at-home mom.  My husband is incredibly supportive, but he works fairly long hours.  This past year was a little difficult for me because Brad got a new job a month before our third child was born.  He had to work quite a lot and for months and months, I was riding solo with three kids 4 years old and younger, daily raking in 13+ straight hours on my own.

Even when you love, love your kids and are so grateful to be home with them, that amount of time is sure to drive anyone a little batty. I guess I’m a light-weight!

Luckily, Brad’s work has been getting better and coincidentally, I’ve been getting a little more sane and less likely to fly off the handle with my kids.  But the days can still be a bit long, and being the extroverted-introvert that I am, I was craving some alone time.

So that’s what I got: I left home at 7:30 AM and returned around 6:30 PM.

Here’s what I did during “Mom’s Day:”

1) Worked out as loong as I wanted.  And since I’m still recovering from an achilles injury, this basically entailed me walking on a treadmill for forever and watching HGTV, since we don’t have cable at home. I threw in a few squats and crunches for good measure.

[Intermittent return to home to shower, get ready, nurse the baby, and have Brad drop me off to the BART station.]