4 posts tagged “kid-free”

You know what's awesome? Going on business trips with Steve. We get to eat out, stay in a hotel with free breakfast (I love a good free breakfast), and most importantly, I can usually meet up with a Vox friend! 

The kids are all getting ready for their summer trips with their dad/stepmom or mom/stepdad. Ok, I am getting them ready, either way, we are in the throes of packing/organizing, seeing who is missing what and whether everyone has a decent amount of underwear. The usual. 

1. Sleep in. (11:40am counts as sleeping in,right?)
2. Drink a pot of coffee by myself. (This is completely normal, right?)
3. Clean up kitchen and realize maybe the kids aren't to blame for the house being messy all the time. (In my defense, I haven't really been home that much since Thursday.)
4. Wash some clothes. (As much as I would like to ignore the laundry during my "vacation", I'm pretty sure I heard Steve say something about using his last pair of clean underwear this morning. Although, it was before 7am, and I was still half asleep. Either way, the hamper was full, so I figured it was better not to take chances.)
5. Plan healthy dinner after 4 days of riduculously fattening food that has resulted in several pairs of pants being too tight. (There are plenty of places I need to gain weight but my backside isn't one of them.)
6. Spend several hours on the phone with friends I haven't talked to in awhile.
7. Lay in hammock and start reading "Wicked" (thanks to Kelly lending it to me!)
8. Make healthy dinner. (Sure I'm planning on making a healthy dinner, but carry out is just so easy)
9. Curl up on the couch with Steve and watch an episode or two of Scrubs.
10. Go to bed. (Have I mentioned how much I love my bed? It's awesome. Featherbed, down comforter, it's like sleeping on a cloud. Hmm, maybe I need to add a nap to my "to do" list...)

So, I realized that when I have nothing planned and the kids are gone, I really really miss them. The house just isn't the same. Honestly, I really like my kids, as much as they might drive me crazy sometimes.

Steve doesn't have any leave time right now so that leaves me at home while he is working. Thursday wasn't bad. I got to see Marlen for the first time in what seems like forever. I would've like to have stayed longer, but Thursdays are "TV Thursday" at my house. I make dinner for Rob, "the new girl", and Gary, then we talk and watch lots of tv. I got homein just enough time to run around like a chicken with my head cut off attempting to clean and cook dinner. I made a lovely chicken jerky on the grill (unintentionally, of course). We attempted to finish watching the Battlestar Galactica miniseries, but just weren't feeling it. We ended up watching the Colbert Report and calling it a night.

I quickly checked my Vox before bed to see if Kelly wanted to meet up for lunch and she was still ignoring me. That's when a light went off in my head and I realized that it's her "weekend" and she doesn't have internet at home right now! I gave her a call and we made lunch plans. It had been almost a year since the last time we met up! Seriously, I'm not letting that much time go by this time and it's not just because she gave me some Cadbury Flake bars and lent me some awesome books. Kelly is just one of those people that I feel like I've known forever. We talked and talked and then talked some more. We were going to watch a movie from her impressive collection (she has awesome taste in movies), but we were enjoying talking too much. Side note, Sam is ridiculously cute. I completely understand why Kelly is wrapped around his paw.

I could've hung out and talked forever but Steve made plans with Rob and "the new girl" to go to dinner and see Get Smart. Gary and the non-blogging brother, Dan went too. So I had to head home. We enjoyed an awesome dinner that included lots of high fiving over things like meatloaf and Good Charlotte. Ok, Gary and I were the only ones that high fived over Good Charlotte, but we like them and we make no apologies for it.

Get Smart was just good and funny. I didn't go in expecting anything but to be entertained and I was. It may have helped that I have never watched an episode of the old Get Smart, so I had no expectations whatsoever.

Today, Steve and I slept in.  We have a cookout to go to later. It'll be weird to go without the kids, but I'm sure we'll have a good time anyway!