Recess

"You've probably heard analogies about life being like a book, with each stage of development occupying its own chapter. During your early life, you eagerly scribbled out your contribution on the clean pages of the first few chapters. But with the arrival of children, your own journaling changes its focus some, and also offers the time and space for you to help your child hold his crayon, poised and eager to write in his book of days....Rather than setting your own journal completely aide for these next few years of child rearing, why not carefully slot time to record a few paragraphs-- perhaps a single page and even a whole chapter?"

I read this quote last week in a book entitled "What Every Mom Needs" (okay, the English teacher in me is wincing at the fact that I just put that book in quotes instead of underlining it, but I don't know how to underline through this program on my Mac). It was perfect timing. I intend to write a paragraph in my life book this weekend when I fly to Nashville to spend time with college friends.

We've planned an annual girls' weekend since 1996. There's something easy about spending time with girls who knew me during those college years. Sure, we're different people than we were 11 years ago, but it doesn't matter.

We never have a definite plan of what we're going to do, but some of the potential activities, according to our lovely hostess, include:

shopping
a special art exhibit
manicures
Justin Timberlake concert

So pardon my blogging recess. I'm going to write a paragraph in MY book-- I'll be a better mom when I return.