Life has been very busy in our household lately. We have had a birthday party (or two) every weekend for the past two months, Tom started a new job, I started back teaching at the preschool, Wilson is in preschool at Cross and Crown, Faith is in first grade at CDS, Tom has had many church board meetings, I having been doing my usual house cleaning/projects, and we are trying to decide if we should sell our house! I think the most stressful thing to me is the decision of whether or not to sell the house and move to a better school district, or to stay where we are and enter the charter school lottery. (Either way we are entering the lottery, but we don’t know if we will win the lottery or not)….That will need to be an entirely different blog post altogether!!
Because major life decisions completely stress me out, I needed a night out to myself. I really didn’t want to do the whole bed-time routine, it is exhausting and extremely mundane. Last night Tom and I both fell asleep at 8:30pm while putting the kids to bed. I have to say that physically I felt GREAT this morning and had a great day with the boys, but this evening I really needed to get out of my house. We made frozen pizzas for dinner (which made me cringe because of the ingredients, but sometimes you just have to overlook those things) and then I left. The first thing I did was to go to the shoe store to try on boots. I would like a new pair but didn’t plan to actually buy anything. I just wanted to try them on and put them on my birthday/Christmas list. Then I headed over to Finz, which is a small restaurant in Matthews that I knew had a margarita special tonight. I have to say that I am not doing anything luxurious, but I AM out of the house. Honestly, I am sitting here drinking a margarita, reading over our insurance information for next year, and typing this blog post. Not very exciting, but I am alone and enjoying sitting here in peace doing what I want to do for a while.
For my birthday last year, Sidney gave me a small placard that read, “Know when to give up and have a margarita.” Tonight is one of those nights…
