And Now the Reality Sets In

Awww...how sweet! You're back again! Hope you enjoy your visit with the Peapod Squad!

This is the dance I do.

I need to get away. I need time for myself. I want to be with other grownups. I want to network.

So? I have chance to do these things. I’m excited. I’m nervous. I’m sad.

Because at the end of the day, I really don’t like being away from my family. Though they all drive me silly-willikers some days, their faces always eventually put a smile on mine. And my heart feels incomplete without them.

Even when my peapod squad were babies, I’d get overwhelmed and insist that Daddy needed to watch them so I could go out alone. Inevitably, though, I’d be homesick for them by the time my car was at the end of our street. Or I’d panic that they may need me.

I still do that. (sigh)

I’ve packed all their stuff in labeled bags. I’ve left notes and little goodies for them each day I’m gone. As I zipped up the last bag tonight, I felt that familiar tug. The tug that wants to hold me here. The tug that whispers, “This is where you belong.”

But I know I’ll have a great time in Nashville. I’m excited to see my friends. To learn more about blogging. To hone my writing craft. To make connections that can help me continue to grow this as a business. And I’ll be a better, more rested, hopefully more patient mommy when I return.

And the hugs I’ll get when I walk back in our front door will be AMAZING.

For that…I can’t wait.

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