The girls are at day care today (they officially start next week, but this is part of the 'ease-in period') and I returned from dropping them off to one of the most blissful sounds I've heard in a long time...
SILENCE!
I'd forgotten how much I love silence and alone time. Pre-babies, I spent a lot of time alone. I've worked from home pretty much since about 2006. And, although I consider myself a social person and the silence was deafening at first, I got used to it, and even learned to love it. When we lived in DC, Annie went to Miss Kim's 3 afternoons a week, so I had periods of silence then; but ever since we moved, we've had a nanny and I've worked in a house filled with kids! For the last year and 3 months, there has been no such thing as silence in my life.
So, today I am relishing the silence. I feel peaceful and serene. I have the whole house to myself and can do what I want to do, when and where I want to do it! I plan to go all domestic diva up in here and put a roast in the crock pot, do some laundry and organize a closet, mainly because I can. I'm sitting at the kitchen table typing this instead of tucked away in the office, because... I can.
Don't get me wrong, I miss my girls. And, there is no better sound in the world then babbling babies or laughing ladies; but sometimes we all need a break, and today I am savoring the sound of silence!
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