My, how things can change in just a week
Just last weekend I was in the bathroom of a hotel, standing by the sink and eating a Flaky (awesome pastry you can buy in a box of 6 or individually at most any gas station around here) in the dark, trying not to make too much noise. Yup. Sounds crazy. I’ll give you the backstory.
I have a hard time sleeping due to anxiety and back pain. I use cannabis edibles to help me to relax, sleep and to ease the pain. But I am usually still up late. This is my time. My “me” time when everyone else is asleep and no one is asking me to do something for them. The edibles usually take about an hour and a half to work.
So last weekend, my daughter had a hockey tournament about 4 hours away. So she gets tired earlier than I do, especially when she plays hockey. And we had an early morning game the next day. So my daughter is asleep around 10:30 pm and I get the munchies. So I have to sneak around the room in the dark to find my Flaky, and then go into the bathroom to eat it so I wouldn’t wake her up. But the hotel bathroom had a light in it that was operated by the same switch as a very loud bathroom fan. So if I turned on the light, the loud fan would come on and wake my daughter. Oh the things we do for our kids.
But this weekend, my husband and daughter are away playing hockey about 4 hours away. So I am home alone with my son. Well it was such a relaxing day. And productive as well. I did laundry. I picked up dog poop in our backyard. I brought in firewood. I cleaned the kitchen. And my son taught me how to use our little excavator so that the two of us could work together to create better ditching so that water wouldn’t run down our driveway, creating a muddy mess, and then freeze, creating a dangerous situation. I know that may not sound relaxing to most of you. But when you can do it at your leisure and you are not getting interrupted by a needy 18 month old puppy, a needy daughter and a needy husband.
I don’t even know if I’m doing this blog correctly. But hopefully I can give something to people with my writing. And if I haven’t mentioned it before, I have ADD and my husband and children all have ADHD. So you will see me sometimes going off on a tangent when I originally sat down to write about something totally different
Mommy of Dragons 