Hot Weekend!

One of my best friends asked me what my weekend plans were. I thought about it and remembered weekends of the past. Weekends when all I did was sit around on a slow day and have an extra cup of tea. Weekends when I would take a good book and go outside in the backyard and read, just me and my dog, Bandit. Obviously, this was before kids and menopause.  Weekends were made for me and lazy Sundays and cold cereal with milk on Saturdays. When I was little weekends were family time. My parents didn't talk about work or school and every Sunday was pancake Sunday for breakfast and ice cream cones after lunch. And long drives to the marina watching the boats and the water skiers. Those were my perfect weekend's back then. 

Of course weekends have changed a lot since then. I am not a LOT older and have a son now. I still have my mom but not my dad, who passed away, and my dog is not with me either. Bandit passed away when my son was 2 years old. So, now weekends consist of almost anything. Sundays, I try to make a big breakfast or dinner if I have the energy. If not then we settle on a pizza delivery. Which makes no difference to my son, sometimes I think he would rather eat pizza then a big Sunday dinner anyway and sometimes that is more then fine with me. Especially on days like today. It is a lazy day and I have been sleeping for part of  it. Sometimes it seems like I can just never get enough sleep. Waking up at 3am in a hot sweat is not helping any. All night it is covers on, covers off and 3am wake up call from the heat of the night. It takes a while for the cooling and the process of me going back to sleep. If I had a nightstand in my room I would just have a big bottle of ice water on there for my 3am wake up calls. I haven't been up at 3am so much since I had my son 9 years ago and I didn't like it too much then but it was something I had to do and we got through it. I thought those days were long over me awake before dawn and not doing anything the least bit fun for me to be awake. So, I told my son I was going to take a nap at noon. I couldn't hold my eyes open any longer. He was ok with that and so was my mom who was reading the Sunday paper. I slept for a total of 2 and a half hours and could have slept longer but I heard footsteps coming over to my bed. I knew who that was. I was surprised he let me sleep that long without calling, "MOM, MOM" for something but I guess he was content having the tv all to himself for all that time. 

If I could I would have went back to sleep for 20 more hours. Okay, maybe not that long but a couple more. But, my nap was over and I was sort of not too sleepy anymore and glad that today is Sunday so I don't have to do much. No early mornings rushing around feeling like I am a minute late for whatever it is I need to be doing or need to be. Rushing trying to get breakfast on a plate for my son who will always want something else that is not on his plate or we don't have in the house. Rushing to get dressed and showered before my mom gets in the bathroom only because she takes what seems like forever and that doesn't work for me most of the time especially when I am running around like a chicken with their head cut off.  It is always busy during the week. And I am always feeling hotter then I know everyone else is. Fanning myself in between chores and stopping a little too long at the frozen food section at the store with the door open picking out frozen peas. I can't help it that air feels so good sometimes. I am just glad that not many people are in the store at the times I go because I can imagine the stares I would get and the funny looks. I am glad that near the exit they have a big fan. Yes, I stand there for a minute before I leave the store just letting the cool air surround my whole body. People go around me and I know that they think I am a little nuts. But, I am not nuts, just hot. 

So, I answered my friend's question. I said I had no plans. Sometimes those are the best plans. I plan to stay cool on one of the hottest days in March on record here and drink plenty of ice water and maybe find a fan or two to stand under.