I love February. Every year it reminds me that Spring is right around the corner. I’ve always looked forward to spring and summer. As a single mom summer seemed easier than the school year. There were no buses to catch, homework to oversee, or bedtimes to enforce.
Spring was always a wonderful time of new beginnings and longer days, more daylight hours to spend with my daughter. Somehow the shorter days of winter seemed really, shorter, like there were fewer hours and so much more to do.
So for me, February is a time of anticipation. Money is generally tight but we have some things that have become a tradition and I save for them all year long and we start planning in February.
One of those things in camping on Mother’s Day weekend. I love this, it’s a gift to myself, and as a bonus, most KOA’s give you Saturday night free if you stay Friday night on Mother’s Day weekend. A trip together and saving money, can’t go wrong there.
I love planning little weekend trips for the two of us. Sometimes it seems like you don’t really talk to each other, unless you have to, like in a car for several hours or just the two of you hiking and sleeping in a cabin, with no TV.
Those are some of my favorite moments of being a mom. The times I get to forget all the things I have to do and spend time doing what is most important. Spending time with my daughter. Hailey is eighteen now and on her way to making her place in this world so many of the things I look forward to, we are not able to do.
My work schedule and her work schedule don’t always allow for time together. So while my life is a little slower, a little more mellow, her’s has sped up and time with mom gets pushed to the back burner.
I thought it was hard to coordinate our time together when she was little but I’m finding that the older she gets the smaller window there is for our time. It makes me sad and also makes me wish I had taken advantage of every moment when she was small.