alone, at last!
Today I drive to Kansas City and drop my youngest daughter (15) off at the airport. She is flying out to Washington DC to spend a week with her big sister. They are going to have a blast. She wants to be sure to visit Arlington Cemetary, and they are talking about touring the Smithsonian, etc…
As for me? What am I going to do to fill my lonely hours while my children are absent? When I am home, all alone, without a single soul to keep me company?
Oh, don’t you worry. I have plans. *sly smile*
First of all, I am not going to wash a single dish. Or do a single load of laundry. And I am going to have ice-cream for supper, just because I can. I’m going to stay up late and not worry about bed-time, and I am going to borrow my daughters favorite shirt. Without asking. I’m going to lay around and talk on the phone for hours with my friends, mostly about nothing. And I am going to turn the stereo up too loud every time one of my favorite songs comes on.
In short, kind people, I am going to revert. In the absence of all thing teen, I fully intend to become one. Without the pressures and expectations of maturity thrust upon me, it is amazing how quickly I backslide. I’ve gone through this before, and I know of what I speak. Lawns do not get mowed. Garbage does not get carried out. Beds do not get made. This is serious, people, LOL!
Oh, have no fear. By the time she shows back up a week from now, exhausted and exhilerated from her brave venture to the ‘big city’, life will be back to normal. The dishes will get washed. There will be a curfew reestablished. For both of us. And things will, for the most part, resume as usual.
But, somewhere in the back of my mind, as we settle comfortably back into our daily routine, I can guarentee you that I will be thinking, ‘I wonder if Big Sis would take her again for Thanksgiving?’.
KC
July 9, 2009 at 11:08 am
LOL, KC — I’m just the opposite. If I get time alone, I usually clean clean clean. (And rearrange.) (And Meg paints anything that stands still.)
Enjoy your reversion to the max! Sounds like wonderful fun and a great way to recharge your batteries.
July 9, 2009 at 2:28 pm
KC, have a good time. I know I do when alone. Marilyn is right..I’ve gotten all sorts of things painted. BTW: The ladderback chairs are cute in lime and grapeple.
July 9, 2009 at 3:48 pm
Can I come stay with you? We’d have a great time breaking all the rules!
Susan
http://the-twisted-sisters.com
July 9, 2009 at 9:25 pm
KC, isn’t great to get a break from being an adult??? I envy you. I haven’t had the house all to myself for more than an hour in fourteen—yes 14, years!
Lynn
July 9, 2009 at 10:23 pm
KC,
Have a wonderful time!! Enjoy your freedom and know that soon, very soon, your nest will be empty and you will have the opportunity to reclaim your home… spw
July 10, 2009 at 4:54 pm
Sounds fun!! I want to revert, too. And just toss all responsibilities out the window!!
July 10, 2009 at 5:01 pm
Okay. True Confession time. It was cool for awhile, yesterday, to be on my own. But at about 8 o’clock I started wandering the house in a lonely stupor, and by nine, I was on the phone to DC, telling elder daughter to send my baby home to me…now! They are laughing at me, of course, but I am ready for them…both…to quit their gallivanting and come home, now. And I thought I was tough, LOL!
July 11, 2009 at 8:42 pm
One of the disadvantages of living alone is you have to go the other way….seek company. But then, you’re so used to having your own way, having peace and quiet, when you’re with others, you can only take it for short periods.