Mommy's Time Out

After a pretty long and trying week with the boys, I decided I needed a small break. Actually, I broke down. I tried calling my mom at work, but she was teaching one of her classes for trainees in her department. I wound up calling my dad and ended up in tears and barely able to mutter or construct a few sentences while gasping for air. Ugh. I guess it was a long time comin'!

I managed to get my point across somewhere in my blubbering. I asked if they could watch the babies on Saturday and they very happily agreed to. Evan was supposed to go to Kevin's mom and dad's house, but they ended up already having plans, so he went down to my parents' house too. They survived with all three of them, but had plenty of hands on deck to help out; Uncle Dude (my brother Josh), Uncle Nate, and also Uncle Nate's practically live-in girlfriend, Tiffany.

I got everyone all packed up and into the car around 8:30 in the morning to make the one hour drive to drop them off. While I was doing that, Kevin stayed home and picked up the house, which by the way must've had more explosions within. I was gone for a total of three hours round trip. I came home to find Kevin snoring himself into a wonderful nap. I decided to join him, but only managed to get a little over an hour of sleep. Not exactly catching me up on my sleep deficit, but nice nonetheless.

After getting up, we headed out for lunch at P.F. Chang's and planned on catching a movie afterward. Lunch was yummy, but the stars weren't exactly aligning for our movie date. Turns out there is nothing playing right now that we wanted to see. We decided to head over to the mall and relax in the Borders bookstore. I browsed cookbooks while Kevin flipped through magazines.

From there, we were craving dessert, so we headed across the upper level of the mall and walked our childless, happy selves into The Cheesecake Factory. I'm not a fan of cheesecake, so I opted for some sort of chocolately goodness. The name escapes me, but it was a huge piece, the cake itself seemed like it was a mile high. Kevin ordered the Snickers cheesecake.

From there we really weren't sure what to do with ourselves. It was too early to pick up the kids, so we headed into Babies R Us to get Evan some pajamas, poor kid had outgrown most of his. After that we decided it was probably time to bring ourselves back to reality and headed down to get the kids.

It's kind of funny how things worked out though. I needed a whole new fall/winter wardrobe since Kevin ruined my entire one from last year (don't ask, that's a whole other story and I still get upset about it!) I also need new shoes of all kinds. My feet feel like they grew a whole size from this last pregnancy and I never really noticed because I all but lived in flip flops. Now that the weather is turning a bit cooler, I tried putting on a pair of my old tennis shoes and my toes felt like they were going to go right through the front of the shoe. Well, back to my point...the thought never crossed our minds to do something we actually needed to do, which was all sorts of bliss.

For once we didn't have to focus on what needed to get done, who was crying or hungry, what bills needed to be paid, etc. For the first time in a long time we took the time to just relax and were able to do things spur of the moment and really enjoy ourselves. It was so wonderful not to dread the one million steps needed just to get out of the car and into a store before pulling into the parking lots.

Today's Monday...and it's back to the grind around this place. It was nice while it lasted!