i need my MORNING MAMA TIME!

"My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it." ~ Buddy Hackett

The kids have a day off of school tomorrow. This means only one thing... no Morning Mama Time! Don't get me wrong! I love having them home. We get to sleep in (maybe). We get to have a fun day to do whatever we want to. The pj's can stay on until whenever. The clock can go on and tick away. BUT! Mama does not get her morning (alone time) coffee! This may sound like such a trivial thing to the vast majority of people. But I know that other moms out there could totally and completely relate to my story here! Right?

There is something so important, so relaxing, and so necessary about morning mama time to me. First of all it means I am, well, alone! No kids. No fighting! I can sit in my quiet, dark, and messy kitchen and let it all just go away. No worries and definitely NO cleaning until after my coffee is finished! I have time to reflect, ponder or pray. Plan the day or just doing nothing at all. The time I have for me seems to vanish in no time at all. The phone will ring, the sight of all of those dirty dishes will become too much, the cats need to be fed. Somehow, though, all of those tasks that need to be conquered become more obtainable. I am more calm. That itsy-bitsy bit of morning alone time seems to be the trick. All I seem to need to recharge my battery. Give me an old fashioned kick in the seat of my pants.

So I don't get my MMT tomorrow. So what! I know I will survive. But,when Monday morning rolls around though, I will savor "my mama time" all that more (and maybe have an extra cup of coffee!!)