2 Weeks Behind Me...

Well now it feels like something other than a holiday...we're at the start of week three and it is Valentine's Day.

I had a great weekend.  I took our youngest daughter up to Saskatoon for a Ringette tournament.  The husband and oldest daughter stayed at home.  I loved my time with Olivia.  Seeing her run around with the girls at the pool and her excitement with most everything we did reminded me that I need to take the time to appreciate our time.

Once I get back to work, I will make sure when we have tournament weekends that I take time off so I'm not feeling rushed to get back and clean the house or do the laundry.  That kind of thinking really takes away from the experience of spending time on the road with your kid.  Instead of waking up and hitting the road, yesterday I let her waterslide for an hour and a half before we left.  We stopped on the way home in Davidson for a burger instead of powering home.  Why?  Because I didn't feel the pressure to get home to get things back in order.  It felt great!

So what's on the agenda for this week?  I'm not sure...I plan on having a Betty Draper day at some point during my sabbatical.  I will walk around with a glass of wine in my hand all day...I just want to see what that's like :).  I also have visions of going to a matinee by myself at some point.  I know these are weird little things, but I guess they seem important to me as I've never really been alone.  I've never lived on my own.  I lived at home, them roommates, moved in with Clayton and got married...so doing things on my own is something that sort of makes me anxious. 

The other thing that I wanted to do while off was have more fun.  I fed my SingStar habbit in a big way last week.  I purchased 30 items from the SingStore.  I sang each new song and I think I danced all of the new ones too.  I'll have to pull together a group to sing and dance into the night. 

"Come on Barbie, let's go party!"