Mommy Alone Time

Calling all busy, working moms...who wants some mommy alone time?

Me, too! And today, I'm getting it  🙂

I can't believe what a beautiful day it is in my hometown of Corpus Christi, Texas! I lucked out. While many of us would LIKE  to have some time alone, many times it's just not that simple. Most of us can't just decide "I'm not going to work today. I'll have the nanny care for the children and call in the housekeeper so I can have tea with my most poshy, stay-at-home mom friends"   :/

Okay, 

#1. I would never choose tea. I'm picking coffee, beers or margaritas.

#2. I don't have a nanny or housekeeper. I'm guessing you don't either. If you DO have a housekeeper, you have "arrived" in my book! CONGRATS! What's your secret to success?? haha 🙂

#3. I do have friends that are fancier than me, which is great because when I want to dress up I know it won't be a struggle to convince everyone else. Besides, as a busy mom, when the heck do I actually go out? I'm taking every outing opportunity to dress up! I've been attending book with Bible studies at church on Saturday mornings and I'm wearing sparkly eyeshadow to that Beastly Ladies' Church group!

I'm getting excited about the small things, dusting off the frumpiness that comes with being an exhausted mom of a newborn. My baby is now a toddler, which helps. He can walk (independent man!) and talk (well, kind of...). I let him pull everything out of my bathroom drawer (to a point) as I'm getting ready. He might walk out of the bathroom with me wearing some self-applied brush on his forehead and gently poke his eye with a closed mascara (true story) but he's okay. And then I'll just dump everything back in the drawer. I'll organize it again later...someday ja jaja (Spanish for "ha ha").

So back to mommy alone time...

It's not a matter of "would like to." It's a matter of "need to." Now this of course depends on what type of job you have. If you can, use a vacation day - yes, I said it - a VACATION day for yourself. It's time well spent. It's mommy alone time that is needed to stay sane. If you're like me, you yourself (or your own mother) will bring on the guilt. "Well, if you have free time you should be spending it with your kids." I agree to a certain point. If you are getting in your mommy alone time to relax and breathe and read YOUR books and watch YOUR movies and hang out at your fave place that doesn't have a coloring books to entertain your little ones, then GREAT. You should take a random vacation day and do fun things with your kids! I did that last week, took my little girl to get her ears pierced and eat at her favorite restaurant. 

But if you're not getting in mommy alone time, you need to. It doesn't mean you don't love your kids. We all need a breather. The last thing you want is to find yourself in a depression because you put so much pressure on yourself on have the spotless house with small kids taking out what you just put up 3x already + all of life's responsibilities - hanging out with grown ups once in a while. That - with no break - will drive you crazy. And the last thing you want is to lose your cool with your kiddos and/or push your sanity out the door. Neither you or your family deserve that. 

So schedule your break, Mommy. Even if it's just a few hours, get your mommy alone time, and just BE.

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