The Momigraine
I keep calling it "the weekend," when, in all honesty it was the middle of the week. And it WAS a work trip. However, when you are the mother of four kids 17, 14, 10 and 5, a work trip tends to be a LOT less demanding than what you've got waiting for you at home. 😱 Just sayin'. I mean...there was the awkwardness of having to get up early and drive 2 hours to be in Columbia by 9 am. (Nine am alone is early for me. Why else did you think I homeschooled for 12 years? I am not cut out for functioning with normal society. It took me a LONG time to adjust back. #weirdo 😉) Painful. And THAT one was optional. But I am SOOOO glad I did it, because it was a special training where I learned to defend myself in unsafe situations (and in all the professions I choose, that tends to be a possibility)...and calm an escalating situation with careful, safe defensive holds. And to be honest, the skills I learned were invaluable, but the fact that I got to be so active