Time with my GIRL and ME time!

This was a weekend all about recharging myself!! I had a ROUGH week and desperately needed to detox and recharge!!! I am happy to say it was a BIG success!!! It started early with taking a nice relaxing bath Thursday night, then Friday I had some much needed time with just Kaya, thanks to a friend watching C man for a few hours (thank you so much again!!!). It is amazing how just a few hours can help me feel better about being a mom to Kaya!! After dropping Connor off, we went to Wendy's to eat just us girls, then we headed to Super Target. We had to get a bday present for Kaya's friend Ellie's tea bday party Sat morning. While we just did those two things, it was so FUN to just be the two of us. I love Connor to pieces and did miss him, but I really do miss time with just Kaya. A must that we will do more and more. Friday night, we all headed over to another friends to hang out and eat pizza! Kaya had a blast playing with the girls as all the adults played poker and chatted for hours! I had a lot of fun and really want to do that more and more too!

Saturday morning came the tea party which I left Connor home with papa as Kaya and I went on our way. Let me just say... I am so doing a tea party for Kaya on her 5th bday! It was SOOOO cute and so fun!!! My friend's mom said she is at my disposal when I need help for Kaya's tea party, lol. You better believe I will be taking her up on that one! Saturday night we all went out to eat and to B&N for new books for all (well, except Connor... poor guy, lol). I bought a book for $5 and read all 285 pages before I went to bed last night!!! It was really good! A murder mystery in suburbia among soccer mom's!! My fav books are murder mysteries and this one I could so relate to... ok maybe not the murder part, but all the mom stuff, lol. Anyway, I am getting back into reading! I really love to read books, but I just seem to forget to get more to read. I need to go to the library to check out a bunch of Patricia Cornwell's (one of my fav authors).

Then came Sunday as I had planned for my "ME" afternoon with Mark. He took both kids to run a few errands and CEC. I had about 4 hours to myself!!! It was wonderful!!! I napped a little, read my book a little, did a little of just whatever my heart desired, and showered. Botton line.... I did only what I wanted to do and ignored everything else!!! This is another thing that I so need more of! Mark and I have talked a LOT about this such subject and how we each would plan to have our alone time along with time with each kid one on one... all talked about while pg with Connor... we are just a little slow on the implentation!

While my house is a mess and laundry is in full time motion....... it is all GOOD! I am recharged and ready for all of it! An excellent weekend to help me gain more prespective on how lucky I really am...... but how I need some help from time to time to help recharge!!