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Awww..To Be Young Again

This is my daughter. All she cares about when she wakes up is what’s for breakfast, the weather (so she can decide on an outfit) and whether to wear her hair up, or down. These are the musings of a 4 year-old.

When I wake up, my musings are a bit different but probably not unlike yours (humor me). When I wake up, I immediately think about when I can go to bed again. Oh yeah, and there is all that other stuff in between like what’s for dinner, or what will the homework be today? Oh and of course I cannot forget the big question. What’s for lunch?

Where I work, lunch is time to socialize so we rarely eat in. The morning begins with a flurry of emails. Where will we go? Who is going? Who is driving? That sort of stuff. Today I am hitting the gym on my lunch break so I am not joining the lunch time festivities.

In addition to all this, I often think about my to-do list:

  1. Pay orthodontist
  2. Donate items to “last day of school” party
  3. Get gifts for the teachers (my daughter has 6 preschool teachers and my son has 3)
  4. Sign-up for swim lessons
  5. Plant tomatoes
  6. Finish reading Prodigal Summer
  7. Finish listening to Thunderstruck
  8. Pick-up prescriptions
  9. Make 11 STAR props for community theatre
  10. Laundry, laundry, more laundry

Of course..this is just a drop in the bucket. I can’t seem to remember any other items at the moment. I am going to try a knock a few of those off right now.

Weekend Plans: Carrie Here I Come!

Only a few more hours of work for me. Tonight, we have our last Cub pack meeting and then we are celebrating with Cold Stone ice cream. The kids ought to love that!

Saturday morning, I have a hair appt.. All I will say, is that as you get older, those little gray hairs that used to pop-up once in awhile.. all of a sudden start to take over your entire head. It’s not fun to admit that you are moving into the next phase of adulthood, but when your husband points out a bit of gray in your eyebrow..then you know it has begun. Men!

Saturday night, my girlfriends and I are celebrating a birthday so it’s dinner and Sex And The City! I cannot wait. I don’t get to see a first-run movie too often so it will be a real treat to actually sit in a theatre and enjoy a really good movie. No kids, no husband just me and my popcorn.

Sunday I am as free as a bird. No plans at all. I can sit in my jammies all day long if I want to and I just may do that. What have you got planned for the weekend?