ME time is very often accompanied by mom guilt. Any time that is spent away from your kids can make you feel bad. Especially if it is not time spent at say, work. (For the record, I do NOT consider work "ME" time.) If you feel guilty working, and work is necessary, then how guilty do you feel if you are not with your kids and are not doing something that is really necessary?!
I do think it is necessary, however. ME time is so important for Mom's sanity. Or the pretense of sanity anyway. I explained before that my kids go to my in-laws on Sunday afternoons. I get ME time. Sometimes that time involves meeting a girlfriend for lunch. Sometimes it means doing 6 loads of laundry. Sometimes it is me sitting on the couch getting sucked into episode after episode of 48 Hours: Hard Evidence on Investigate Discovery. I love Sunday afternoons.
I will be honest and admit that there are times that I get off work early and leave my kids at daycare for a while. There are days that I go into work later in the day, but still take the kids to daycare in the morning. Today I was supposed to work late, so my MIL was picking up the kids at school to watch them until Jim and I got off work. However, my schedule ended up getting switched. I didn't want Caden to be disappointed and cancel Grandma, so I let Grandma pick them up as planned and I had a couple hours to myself. My 3 extra hours involved 2 episodes of CSI along with balancing the bank account, paying bills, and sorting mail. I then ran to the grocery store to get milk, bread, chocolate syrup, and diapers. You know...the important things. So, my ME time was not exactly idle time, but grocery shopping without the kiddos is so much easier. And watching CSI is so much more enjoyable than Yo Gabba Gabba.
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