FLASHBACK 1987i wake up at 5am, soaking wet in my bed. i'm 9 months pregnant and my water just broke! ack!! 2 hours and 45 minutes later i have a beautiful baby boy.
FLASH FORWARD 1988
i wake up at 4:45am. i am in an amazing pain. i'm 9 months pregnant and having contractions. i get to the hospital. a contraction just ends and the nurse asks "how far apart are your contractions?" me "ack!!" another contraction! they fly me to the delivery room and 30 minutes later i have a beautiful baby boy.
FLASH FORWARD 1990
i wake up at 9am. i check in to the hospital. they leisurely check my vitals, draw lines on my belly, introduce me to the staff. at 2pm i am wheeled back to the OR. 20 minutes later i have a beautiful baby boy.
up until 1987, i could do what i wanted when i wanted. well. i did what i wanted when i wanted, consequences be damned. then my boys were born. KABOOM!! KABOOM!! KABOOM!! no time for cardinal. want a bubble bath? "mama! mama! i wanna play in the bubbles too!!" want to read a book? "mama!! mama!! read me "the true story of the big bad wolf"!!". wanna go shopping? toys 'r us us here we come.
somehow, when we grow up, life becomes a series of "have to's". we have to take care of the kids. we have to take care of the pets. we have to take care of the house. we have to take care of our spouses. there is an endless amount of laundry...cooking...cleaning. there is no time for you.
well...today is "innergize day". yep. the day after the autumnal equinox...which was yesterday, by the way...is a day to set aside just for you. a day for you to get to know yourself. a day to do all those things you always wish you had time to do. take a bubble bath...NO KIDS ALLOWED!! read a book...might i suggest tina fey's "bossypants" or, possibly, a classic like bram stoker's "dracula". go shopping...nordstrom rack maybe. whatever you do make sure it's all about YOU!!
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