Solitude is the Best Companion (Maybe)

10 years in the making. 10 years of raising children, schooling, feeding and reading to them. For the first time in a decade starting Monday, I will have 3 hours - 3 WHOLE HOURS - to myself each day 4 times a week. It's like what Henry David Thoreau said of Walden Pond:

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."

Except I substitute "mall" for "woods."

Things to do while the kids are in school:


*Take water aerobics classes and remember to yell "Whoo! Yeah baby!" during the tough parts.

*Go to dog park (and remember to bring the dog).

*Scrub those baseboards (HA! Just kidding!)

*Resist the urge to post embarassing pictures of my almost 10-year-old. It must be rough to be a daughter of a momblogger. My other kid? No problem.

*Volunteer at my kids' school and address their teachers, "Hey girlfriends!" Even the male ones.

*Knit a sweater for my dog that says "Bad to the Bone."

*Try out new recipes like this one. Yeah, they'll love me for that!

*Call into radio shows and try out my new catch phrase: THAT is so JUNGLE!

*Learn a new yoga pose like this one.

And finally the number one thing I'll do while the kids are in school:

Run for the President of the United States with the slogan: "I'm a blogger. I know everything."