Day 03/30: Cozy Moments
I guess it must be me getting older, but more and more often I find myself trading a night out with friends for an evening in. Sometimes Scott and I curl up on the couch for some good old fashioned boob tube (scifi and popcorn are often involved). Other times I tuck myself away in my office and work on a quilt. Between two jobs, book proposals (heck yeah), making time for family, and keeping in touch with friends, these precious nights alone are few and far between.
More often I find myself carving this kind of time in the morning, waking well before I was meant to get out of bed. Those delicious chunks of sleepy solitude are almost better than a whole night of Star Trek episodes.
Of course, I can hear all of you current mamas snickering. If I think I'm low on down time now, just wait, right? Well, all I can hope for is that down time will still exist post-baby, though perhaps it won't look or feel quite the same as it used to. Instead of a bowl of popcorn on my lap, it will be a nursing babe. Instead of a reprieve from computer screens and kitchen experiments, I'll be begging for a break from spit-up and baby tears.
I can't imagine that all of that will make me treasure these moments any less.
