Three plumbers and three electricians (two trailing dried mud and spewing plaster) paraded through my house today. But it's finished--the electrical problems and the various other demands that the buyers had put forth. And so now the count is on till our closing, some 28 days. I cannot tell you how great it feels to have strange, messy men out of my house.
So while I'm still buried under one lingering bit of freelance, I can sort of see the light at the end of the tunnel. Sure, there's the packing, the moving, the shacking with the in-laws for a week, then two weeks with my parents, and then cleaning and moving into the new home...but before that is a promise of a get-away. Something I've never experienced before, something that will carry with it no small amount of guilt, but will also hold the renewing properties of warm sand, soft, lapping waves, and unexplored horizons. And I'll need all that peace to carry me through the next month.
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Congrats on the sale of the house and your survival of the inspections and their aftermath. (That was a bona fide nightmare! I've never heard of an inspector disabling a house before - there ought to be a law...)
With regard to your impending "get away", this is my version of a "get away without guilt" card (loosely modeled on a "get out of jail free" card). A mother, staying at home raising a toddler, working from home, selling a home, readying to move into a new home, is not only working harder than she would at a full time job, but is carrying more tension than even she may know - and probably without a means of relief. There is no "down time" for Mommy. This is closely paralleled by the universal truth that "Mothers can't get sick." That is simply because we all (husbands and children) depend on you so much for so many things that when you are out of commission the world doesn't work right - if it works at all.
You mommies are the most crucial members of the human society. You nurture our present and secure our future - and all of it is at enormous personal cost, which is all too often unnoticed, and worse, devalued in our current society. But, you know, you have incredible value. You are doing the most important work that is being done and you don’t even get an instruction manual with the children! Although, there is a lot of free advice – which is probably where the phrase “you get what you pay for” comes from! Mothers provide, in their very beings, the solid ground on which we all stand. You not only provide but embody the homes in which the rest of us get to find refuge and take shelter. Your love shows the world the face of God. That is what love looks like. So, do whatever you need to do to be able to keep doing what you are doing! And there is no guilt to be associated with getting a little recharge, relaxation, rest and recuperation. Go, be free. Get rested - you most certainly deserve it. Have a glorious time. But, by all means come back - we simply can't go on with out you. You are, and will always be, Mom. Have fun.
Mike--Thanks for the congrats and the much-needed acknowledgement that it'll be okay if I sneak away for some "me time." As long as I return. =o)
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