The Crazy Life & Times of A Single Mom: July 2014

What is "me time"?

Madea, a character from Tyler Perry's genius of a mind, argues with her daughter in a scene in "Madea Goes To Jail", about Cora needing "me time". I am a HUGE Tyler Perry fan, and encourage anyone to check out his movies, especially he Madea movies.

For me, I made a resolution with myself a few years ago that I would remember to take a few minutes a day to myself. I'm not always successful. Up until this summer, my "me time" has usually been my shower time. And oh how amazing it has been (until this summer) for every other weekend, I get to take an uninterrupted long shower and just enjoy the relaxing sound of the water, and not hearing "Mooooomm!" every two or three minutes. By the way, I've actually come to miss this.

My goal for this summer was for me to make my time away from Katie to work on me and become a better mom and person. I have been less than successful at doing much more than working and sleeping-unless I have Katie.

I'm so excited that I finally get a few minutes of "Me time" tomorrow. A local salon posted on their Facebook page that they had an opening tomorrow morning and would love to give someone a FREE facial. So, after work, I'm getting my very first facial, and it's free. Of course I'll give a tip, etc. But I'm so excited! I'll be sure to post tomorrow how it went, before/after pics and all the details.

It's been about a month and a half or so since my last post, which was about Katie going to her dad's for the summer. What a summer it has been!

Katie has been having lots of fun while she's been at her dad's, and I mostly work and sleep when I don't have my visitation with her. She's been busy swimming, having all sorts of fun, and playing softball.

As I've mentioned before, Katie's dad and step-mother have a swimming pool, so she can swim almost any time she wants to. She has kept me up to date with all the fun she's having in the pool: she can now swim without any floaties (I think we'll still use some until I know she's a very strong swimmer), she can touch the bottom of the pool, and her dad bought a basketball goal for the pool that she really enjoys playing with.

Katie's dad and step-mother have been making sure is having lots of fun and staying busy! Among other things, she's gotten to go see a circus, and spend time with her Grandpa and Grandma Shelton, and her older brothers. She says that when she's at her grandparents' she gets to help her papa take care of a baby calf, and she really enjoys getting to pet its head because it us really soft. I am so thankful that she is having a fun summer with them!

Katie's softball team sponsor this year was The Wagon Wheel Diner. It's a new diner in Fairfield that has a country theme, as I'm sure you can tell from the name. I've never eaten there, but I know several people who say it is really good. Katie mostly played left field, but her last couple of games, she got to play catcher a little. We discovered that she really enjoys playing catcher. With a little off-season practice, I think she will be great! She didn't hit any home runs this year like she did last year in tball, but she got a lot of good hits! I'll try to get sone videos uploaded at some point in time. Her team tied 1 game and won 1 game. They weren't the best, but they tried their best and every player on the team improved tons throughout the season! I'm so proud of them all!

We've also had our 7 days together, and we had fun just hanging out the two of us.

Katie has also lost 3 teeth, including her top front 2 this summer. She's growing tons and keeps getting prettier by the day. We've also added a member to our family, Katie finally got her goldfish. She named it "Goldie" and is very excited about having a pet!

School will be starting in August, and it's right at a month before Katie comes back home for the school year. I'm so ready for my baby girl to be home!