Time Out

These past few weeks have been highly stressful. Cody's Aunt Judy passed away unexpectedly and my grandmother has been very ill. There have been multiple issues at home. We are trying to take pro active actions to keep the house from flooding again this year like last year which is proving to be expensive, fix the backyard, the heater needs to be replaced, our tax attorney was horrible to me when I confronted her about mishandling our account, etc. The list goes on and on. However the worst is feeling far away from my family while they are ill, it occupies my mind all hours of the day and night. So yesterday, I had my fill of stress and worry, my brain couldn't take anymore. I decided to run away. But how does an adult run away when she has 2 kids and her husband is out of town for work. I had to improvise but made it happen. I pulled the boys out of school, we went to McDonalds for lunch, played at the play place, got ice-cream and then played putt putt at the mall. We may or may not have gotten a piece of chocolate at Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory before we left as well. My worries were still there when we were done with our day, but at least I felt like I could handle them again without breaking down. Mama needed a time out from adulting.

xx xx