A Day Away

Although I love my children dearly, a day away can be so rejuvenating! Yesterday was rejuvenation at its best. The day started with our bible study at 7:20am. Then my mom graciously took the girls home with her, which left me 90 minutes to prepare for the rest of the day. I did miniscule hodge-podge of exercise (20 min.) and then got ready. Nobody needed anything, I listened to the radio nice and loud, and drank way too much coffee.

Tricia and I hit the ground running at 10:30 am. We managed to hit the quilt shop and Panera before our 2pm tickets to see Grease at the Orpheum. Since we were each only fiscally responsible for one ticket, we decided to splurge and sit in the loge! Our seats were perfect and the show was soooo much fun! A perfect Saturday afternoon activity. We left downtown Omaha, and I brushed up on my "backroad" detours back to Nebraska Furniture Mart. Tricia was a very trusting passenger, and my memory served us very well!

I am sure that many people would not be surprised if I said that I went to the Mart and bought some new furniture, much to Jarod's suprise. However, I am trying to kick that little independent habit of mine......so we had discussed and concurred on purchasing a new camera. Our old one was a piece of junk from the day we got it. It is currently held together with postal tape, and I haven't posted any new pics forever, because the USB cord is missing. So, Tricia was a trooper and allowed me to take numerous pix of her as I tried out a few cameras. We came away with nothing fancy, but much better than our current one!

We made a few splurges at Oakview and found some great bargains. We finished off this great day with a stop at the Indian restaurant in west Omaha. We ate till we were stuffed, our tummies nice and warm from the wine and curry, and headed for mochas at Starbucks. The girl pointed out that we were the Yin-and-Yang of mochas. She had white chocolate, and I had regular. We agreed that we are probably the Yin-and-Yang of much more than just mochas!

So after a day of laughing, collaborating, and even a few tears in our hearts, we were ready to head home to be better moms than we were 11 hours earlier! Rejuvenated by the adult conversation and lack of interruptions! So now I close to go get waffels for Laurel and Lydia, and it isn't quite as imposing as it would've been a few hours ago!