09 July 2009

home sweet home*

a few lines that could be heard from our reunion, which turned out to involve lots of physical play and more "wrastling" than i'm used to:

cosmo: you are a big women turtle...that can talk!

mama: aaaaghh! i am not a pillow, i'm a person!

cosmo: your arm is an elevator.

cosmo: i love spending time with you, mama.

mama: i love spending time with you too, cosmo.

i truly relished my time alone. i gardened for longer stretches of time than i ever get to. i goofed off, read, and let the dishes pile up in the sink.



as sweet as it was, i was ecstatic to see my two guys when they pulled up in the driveway.

*carl and i watched a mike leigh movie last night called home sweet home. not as cheery as the title sounds, but, if you know mike leigh films, you already knew that...

4 comments:

mep said...

Cool picture, "big women turtle." Glad your boys are safely home.

Anonymous said...

You are such a great mother!!!! And just think how worried you were about EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!! I'm so proud of you Cake..

DeAndrea

julie said...

How long did you get alone time? I have this weird push-pull thing in which I want Matt to take the girls on a three-day weekend to visit his grandma so that I can be alone, and yet I also do NOT want them to leave me. And for crazy reasons, like what if they all die in a car accident and I'm not there, too? Ugh.

cake said...

thanks mep and dee dee.

julie, i have mixed feelings about it too. i felt so completely confident about carl taking him to his brother's place in KY, that i was able to relax about it, and just enjoy the time. it was 2 nights, almost 3 days. the time flew by, as you can imagine, and i think it was healthy for all of us.