Alone, But Not Lonely

Well, I schlepped the hubby and kids off to the airport this morning. The DH's brother is getting married next weekend, so he and the kids went on up to spend some good family time with everybody. I have a new-ish job and didn't feel okay about asking for a whole week off yet, so I'll be joining them all on Thursday. That means I am all by myself. For probably the longest span of time ever in my life.
Before anyone starts to feel overly compassionate toward me, let me just say that I am really looking forward to this week. Now, y'all know how much I love my kids and my man....but I am excited to have some "me" time.
Not that I'm going to get much. Everybody around here wants to make sure that I'm not too lonely. I'm going out with a friend tomorrow night, with my sister-in-law one other night, and one other friend and I are going to make her graduation announcements. Plus, I spent the whole day with my mom today.
That means it was a good day. I helped her clean her house. And I was compensated nicely. She took me shopping and bought me way too many things. Not that I'm complaining. I rode with her to take her brother and his wife back to the airport after all of this shopping (and she took me out to lunch!!). Coming back from Tampa, though, we edged toward Plant City and it dawned on us that we needed to stop and get a giant strawberry shortcake.
The usual stop was really crowded, so we decided to go down the street to the knock-off joint called Yummy Farms! Yay! But I wanted to get in line at the other place because we would've been behind a guy with the most fantastic mullet I have ever seen. That may have been worth it.
Anyway, there is a local winery in that area, so we decided to go there too. It happened to be some grand opening of sorts. There was a wonderful wine tasting and I bought a bottle of blueberry wine! This was my lucky day. None of these wines are probably very sophisticated, but I like fruity wine. I have never claimed to have a sophisticated palate. I'm not sure if I can even spell it right. All of their wine is made with local fruit, though, which makes it super-fun for me! Then we got lost on the way home. This had nothing to do with the wine tasting. I swear. But getting lost with my mom behind the wheel is usually an adventure and we ended up just taking the scenic route. We made it home and did not rot in a cow pond somewhere, having finished off our lovely bottles of wine (they were our only sustenance).
Then my folks took me out to eat. Wearing one of my new outfits. How fun is that?
Recap: Six days to myself, new clothes, strawberry shortcake and blueberry wine, dinner out in new clothes. Sweet!

DAILY BLISS: Knowing that I will never be in real danger of loneliness.

<3 Christy