Day #2 - Stress Recovery - the day we went ALL the places
Can you smell it? If you’re ever blessed to visit downtown McKinney Texas, there are a few places you can’t miss. One of them is Mom & Popcorn & their magical smell of freshly popped, flavored popcorn and sweet candies.
When our kids were growing up & we had an especially successful homeschool week, we would head to Mom & Popcorn to celebrate. Today, we were kid free and celebrating our 2nd full day at healing from the stress of Covid 19.
Movies are David’s love language. Books are mine. Something I’ve let drift away over the last few years was any reading for pleasure. I read full books by the age of 4 and for most of my life, I’ve read multiple books a week. For these two weeks, I plan to return to my first love.
It’s amazing how guilt washes over me, as soon as I do something for pleasure. I’d say I need therapy to get past it, but I have and I do participate in therapy. Tomorrow I’ll tell you about my latest efforts to find my value in something other than work, but today I’ll just say it’s hard. Doing something for me. - just me - is hard.
But tonight, when I go to bed, I will be taking one of the 11 books I checked out. I will read it. And I won’t hate myself for reading a biography instead of the latest Leadership book. I HOPE!
I had my second melancholy days-gone-by with my kids moment at the library, as I remembered countless visits to this very building, where we passed this very statue. I didn’t know I could love so completely until I learned to love Joshua, Noah and Hannah. Every good day includes them. They are absolutely the best people on earth.
Our day wrapped up with a visit to Trader Joe’s before we came home & David played poker with the boys while I watched Kate & Leopold on Netflix and ate the amazing mini peanut butter cups you see below.
Oh! Too soon! The boys are in here with me, now. They’re laughing at Hugh Jackman and eating lava cake. If nothing else, we’re eating a lot of chocolate in these 15 days. And any day with chocolate is a GOOD DAY.
