Mommy Day

We chickens in the Bennett home have been slightly busy. A fact that I knew in the back of my mind but did not realize the extent of it till yesterday. You see it is a very rare occasion when I find a day in my planner that I have nothing written on. Yesterday was one of those rare days and I just getting back from a little extended stay with a chicken in another city seized the opportunity and declared it a "Mommy Day". The night before after tucking all the chickens in bed my husband asked me what I had planned for the next day. I told him...
"I am having a Mommy day."
"Okay" he said "But what are you gonna do?"
"Nothing, its a Mommy day." I stated. thinking to myself "Didn't I already say that?"
"K, I get that but what do you have going tomorrow? he asked again still not getting it
"NOTHING, I am just gonna stay at home and have fun being a Mom."
"really?" he asks
"yes" I reply."I may not even do laundry or clean, I may just spend the WHOLE day doing fun Mommy things."
"WOW" he says.
Not sure how to take that "WOW" I ask him "WOW, what?"
"well its just not very often when I ask you what you are doing that you say nothing."
hmmmm I think to myself, maybe I should address that problem. But instead I go to sleep dreaming of the nice "Mommy Day" to come.
The next morning as we are eating breakfast Brittany asked me...
"Mommy, what do we have going today?"
"Nothing" I reply.
Her and Justin look at me like I have horns on my head or something crawling out of my ear.
"Nothing?" they both reply.
"No, Nothing." I tell them. Thinking to myself that I might need to give this a little more attention to this matter.
Later that day Rebekah came up to me and asked...
"Mommy, when are we leaving?"
"Leaving for what?" I ask her.
"you know, leaving."
"leaving where Rebekah?" I ask again
"You know like leave the house, to go do something." She says.
I tell her "We are just staying home today. We are not going anywhere. We don't have anything we need to do."
"You mean like we are staying at home ALL day?" she says.
Then I got it. It only took one conversation with my husband and one with each of my daughters, but I think I finally understand. I have to block more time out to simply "be home". Maybe I will get better at that....maybe.