I’m just sipping a nice cup of coffee and indulging in two jaffa cakes. I’m all alone. Alex is watching the football with his Dad. Erin is out with Granny. My work (which involves talking to a lot of people) is complete, and now I am alone.

I enjoy my own company, I’m not a ‘loner’, but I do get tense and stressed when I don’t get time to myself. Time on your own dissipates when you have kids, if I’m not with Erin, I’m with Alex, or friends, or working. It’s extremely rare that I am completely alone, today I am savouring forty-five precious minutes, before the conveyor belt revs up and it’s time to assume my position as mother, wife and (helpful?) friend once more.

I hope everyone is having a good weekend, alone or not!

Photo by flickr user purplespace

One Response to “Never Alone: Coffee and Jaffa Cakes”

1.   Holidaying with Family: Pros and Cons by Littlemummy.Com says:

   May 31, 2007 at 11:47 am

   [...] I’ve always got on well with my in-laws but five solid days together…this was new, unknown territory. Could I possibly quell my need to organise everyone and everything, would I manage with very little ‘alone’ time, I value my alone time. Do the benefits of sharing your holiday outweigh the advantages of having a cosy holiday alone? [...]