AND IT WAS AWESOME!!!!!!!!
Love my kids and all, but gosh, it was nice to say have a little renewal :)
My time away was a planning retreat for the steering committee of my MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) group. This coming year I am the MOPPETS Coordinator for the group. I will be in charge of organizing about 100 kids into childcare rooms, finding childcare workers, making a schedule for the kiddos with curriculum and crafts, and various other things as well. This is all so their mamas can attend our 2 hour MOPS meetings twice a month. It's a big undertaking for me but I'm excited.
We were fortunate to be able to have our planning retreat at a beautiful lake house owned by family members of another steering team member. Not a bad place to spend some time, eh!
The weekend was an amazing and perfect mixture of relaxation, work, and prayer and spiritual connecting. I am really looking forward to working with these ladies this year. We figured out that between the 12 of us we have 26 kids - wow!
So when mama goes away it takes a small team of people to fill in. And I was very grateful for the help. Walter stayed home with Xavier and Wesley, while Elliott spent the weekend with my mom and dad. We decided this would be easiest so that Walter could take the boys to do some fun things that are just harder to do when you have all 3. They went swimming, and did a camp out with some friends. Poor Elliott ended up getting a cold while he was with my parents. He was totally content to be snuggled and loved on by them, but he was very congested and had a really hard time sleeping. Which meant my mom didn't get much sleep either.
I tried to put that out of my mind as much as I could because I knew all my kids were in good hands. I did send Elliott a picture of me on my mom's phone just so he wouldn't forget who I was.
So now that I've conquered my first get-a-way I'm ready for more. Who wants to go on a trip???
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