What I Did While My Family Was Out of the House

My girls got asked to the Daddy-Daughter Dance at church.  By whom?  Their Daddy of course! 

They love him!

Shortly after they left, I realized that I had the house all to my self.  What shall I do to fill the time without them???  The possibilities were endless—ice cream and chick flicks?  Organize closets in peace. (Not my first choice for a Friday night).  A bubble bath?  Manicure? 

Well, I started by posting the darling pix of the girls with their date on FaceBook like a good American mom that I am.  That led to mindlessly trolling FaceBook and Instagram for as long as I wanted without being rude to my family.

Then I got hungry. 

A Kashi microwave meal was my solo dinner of choice.  Pesto Pasta—yum!  After I popped the package in the microwave, I decided to go ahead and try the sparkling wine a friend had given us to celebrate our new home.  It’s from a local vinyard and I was curious to try it.  I’m the only one in my family who drinks and while I realize it’s not customary to drink champagne alone, I got my heart and mouth set on a few sips and decided: what the heck. 

Big mistake.

The bottle opened easily—too easily.  POP! The cork hit the ceiling.  (Seriously.)  Then came the overflowing bubbly just like in the movies.  (Can you tell that I don’t have a ton of experience opening champagne?!)  So, the first activity of my evening was cleaning up sparkling wine off the floor.  Good times.  I thought this mishap would be redeemed by laughing about it with Julie, so I texted her, but she ignored me** so I laughed at myself by myself.  Moral of the story:  Never try to drink champagne alone.
**Amendment:  Julie did not ignore me.  She was doing super-spiritual stuff like leading her church small group in her home.  She silently laughed at my text and texted me back the moment she was free.  She is the best.

Next…

I ate my dinner, 

checked Instagram, 

and put the girl’s roses from Bill into vases 

all at the same time.  

I’m a mom—multitasking is my thing. 

Then, I took some pictures of the girl’s roses incase I wanted to Instagram them later. 

Faux lether jacket--do you like it?  

After that, I did a quick clean-up around the living room so that it looked suitable for no reason whatsoever. 

Then, I tried on the plether jacket I bought myself today.  Not sure if I can pull it off, but I’m going to try tomorrow night.  What do you think?—too biker chick? 

This is what I wear 80% of the week.

After that, I changed into my favorite yoga pants and hoodie.  Bill calls it my “home uniform.”  It’s comfy and not one bit cute.  Oh well.

Even brand new tubs need cleaning--who knew?

After I changed, I looked hard at my bathtub to see if I wanted to take a bath.  I do love a good bubble bath, but I decided the tub would need to be cleaned before I could bathe in it, so I nixed that idea.

Friday night is perfect for
filter changing.

Instead, I changed the air filters for our HVAC unit.  Well, I had to do something productive!

TOO. MANY. TO. COUNT.

Then I spent WAY too long trying to decide about throw pillows for our couches.  I just keep buying pillows and hating them.  My mom bought us some yellow and navy ones.  The navy made the cut, but the yellow ones were too mustard-colored.  Today, I purchased yet another FOUR pillows so I had to try to arrange them on the two couches along with the other eight I already owned.  After too many minutes of arranging and re-arranging pillows, I gave up.  Who needs throw pillows anyway!?  Now there are too many to even sit on the couch.  Ridiculous, I tell you.

dancing in slippers.

After the pillow pile-up, I then put on Rend Collective Experiment as loud as I wanted and danced and jumped around the living room.  No, really, I did.  The whole time I kept thinking about how my friend Conor told me that they recorded this entire album outside at a campfire.  Can that be true?  I don’t know, but it’s great dancing music for when your family has left you all alone in the house.

Finally, I did decide to do a manicure.  It didn’t take very long and I got to let them dry completely without having to pack lunches or tie shoes or rush out the door or anything.  I did take way too long trying to get a pic of my finished nails…and then for some reason can't get it to save to my computer.  So, you will have to use your imagination.  They are silver.  

And now?   Now, I am writing this meaningless blog post just for the fun of it because I haven’t written anything good in quite a while.  So, maybe this will help me break through my writer’s slump* and write something edifying next time.  Meanwhile, you’ve had a glimpse into my super-exciting Friday night life. 

Xoxo

--Elisabeth 

*Seriously, please pray that I am inspired soon!