June 1, 2008

• Home Alone.

  This afternoon my husband had to work so he took MK and Matthew with him to help.  I was asleep on the couch when they left so I got to spend the afternoon home alone.  In the past this would have been something that I would have viewed with a bit of anticipation.  Now, however, it is something that happens far too often. 

  When the children were younger an afternoon alone would have been seen as an opportunity to get things done.  I would rush around the house cleaning and straightening up things and generally making the house liveable.  I would do laundry and dishes and do as much as I could before the children came home from where ever.  I had no thought for what I wanted to do only for what needed to be done.  Of course the time flew by so quickly that not everything got done but I was always greatful for what I was able to do while I had time alone.

  Now, however, I have far too many afternoon, mornings, evenings, you name it when they are gone.  The house doesn’t get that messy and so there is really no need to rush around sweeping and cleaning and doing laundry.  It’s funny, laundry used to rule around here.  Dishes were such a plague that Doug finally bought a dishwasher when Ian was about eight years old.  Now I only do laundry two days a week.  I rarely use the dryer or the dishwasher.  When Matthew and Mary-Kate are gone for the day it often takes me a half hour or more to decide what to do with myself.  Things are so caught up here it is frightening.  Sometimes the silence around here is deafening.

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