12.22.2009

Spontaneity

I am currently sitting in a lovely bedroom community outside of Houston staying with friends. It was a last minute trip and I'm loving it. I used to do things like this a million years ago before I was married and had a child and I've learned that it's not completely out of my reach even now.

The kids here are 8 (soon to be 9) and 11 (going on 25) and they adore Hollis and Hollis is over the moon. It makes me realize he really, really needs to be around more children. He follows Logan everywhere and looks to Emma for help and they play with him endlessly, selflessly, and happily. And I will be meeting another friend's little girl (also 8, soon to be 9) later today and I imagine it will be much the same scenario.

I'm leaving tomorrow morning with some great grown-up conversation and interaction under my belt and a new perception of myself: I'm limited only by my own imagination. I'm like Dumbo with a feather, I just needed an excuse to believe it could be different.

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If you want to read a different sort of writing from me check out Hobo Mama and my guest-blogger post. I write about lying-in in with your new baby and its benefits.

8 comments:

  1. Thee's nothing like some adult time and conversation to "recharge the batteries" of a single mom!

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  2. It is so nice to spend time with others.

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  3. Sometimes, all you need is some new scenery to get a better perspective. Hope your holidays are wonderful!

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  4. Wow babe, GORGEOUS post. Really fantastic. And so true! I realized something similar when I went to BlogHer.

    Thank you for sharing this, it truly is beautiful.

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  5. Good for you for making this trip. I hope it is only the first of many. Btw, I read your post at Hobo Mama. Excellent. I've left a comment there.

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  6. Glad you found your feather!

    Have an extraordindary Day!

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  7. this post made me happy on a day when i wasn't. thanks!

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  8. Visiting from SITS! Glad you managed to get away to visit friends or my brother out of state - I always say I'm going to but don't.

    Moomette's last post: Best of Moomette’s Magnificents Blog Posts 2009

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