Today I sit at home while my child is at a mother’s day out program. Hubby is fast asleep from his previous double shift and dog is actually napping as well. I have 90% of the house to myself in peace and quiet. I relish this because in the quietest of moments…in the stillness of it all I feel like “me”. The “me” I rarely get to be…think about it. I am mother, which I love being…I am wife, which again I welcome to be any day.
When I was younger I played many roles…surrogate mother to my siblings, high schooler with straight A’s, sister, daughter and best friend. I can’t recall ever having any real alone time.
So now I sit here and it is quite an awe inspiring moment. I feel just like little ole me…not mother, wife…but Cathy. And I can say it is refreshing and nice. I would say every woman should have this time of being your first “hat” that you put on …YOU!
I am so glad that my husband pushed for this mother’s day out program as I was totally against it and wanted to keep Munchkin with me all summer long.
So for the next few blissfully quiet and alone hours…I am going to be ME! Whatever that may be…So I encourage all of you wonderfully made women to go and find some sliver of time to be the perfectly and just good ole’ YOU!
Be Blessed,
Me
I consider myself a writer…non published but nonetheless a writer. I recall my sister pointing out this book to me and I read the first page and I was hooked. However it wasn’t until later that I actually purchased the book as I had just been hired as a first year teacher and reading in my spare time was for creating lesson plans and keeping my head above water.
So towards the end of my first year I felt relaxed and that I could take on that hobby of mine that I had put on a shelf and it was collecting dust. So I dusted it off and set my mind on this book. I was on a timeline as well. I wanted to see the movie but I have a stern rule of not watching a movie based on a book until I have read the book. The book is the original and I often find it thrilling to draw up the comparisons of the two.
I was madly and deeply in love with the introduction and was blown away by the idea/plot of this book. As a writer I saw so many ways this book could go and was excited to see which way the author was going to go.
Soon after I found that the pace was like someone taking off at a series of red lights doing zero to 60 only to come to a complete stop. I begged for the author to keep up but soon it was like it ran out of gas and I was on the side of the road trying to push the abandoned vehicle.
There I was pushing and time kept going by. My only resolve was that the ending would be just. So I held out for that. I was and still am disappointed in all of it. Why did the author go thru such a great introduction of suspense…take me by the neck only to torture me for days on end to walk away wondering where I had been and why I wasted so much time.
The movie was just as bad if not worse than the book. I was hopeful that at least Hollywood would go off the deep end as they often do with a book for movie title and rewrite it but NO they stuck true to the book in many ways and it too was a flop in my opinion.
I don’t give details directly to the book in case someone is indeed reading it and I hate spoiling someone’s journey into literature. If you haven’t read it and are considering it…for some it good be a good read but for myself it was depressing seeing a phenomenal idea go to waste.
So I give this book 2 out of 2 books:
Today I sit at home while my child is at a mother’s day out program. Hubby is fast asleep from his previous double shift and dog is actually napping as well. I have 90% of the house to myself in peace and quiet. I relish this because in the quietest of moments…in the stillness of it all I feel like “me”. The “me” I rarely get to be…think about it. I am mother, which I love being…I am wife, which again I welcome to be any day.