A little time to myself

That's all I ask. Just a few hours with no phone ringing. No work to do. No kid yelling for "MORE JUICE, MOMMY!!!!"

Now, of course I love to be with my kid. As you might be able to tell from all of the pictures I post, I do spend most of my time with him. But sometimes a sista needs a break.

Often, when I try to arrange this, something happens to screw it up. I end up getting sick and not being able to enjoy myself. Or my husband calls with plans he has made for me. For example, going with him to buy a new work truck.

So I figure that when he goes fishing, that's the perfect time for me to take a day off. He can't call from 80 miles offshore. Well, he can use the satellite phone, but those calls last about 14 seconds, and are very infrequent. Nothing like the hourly calls I normally get from him.

As usual, it didn't work out like I had planned. I do have a babysitter, and I even almost finished the article I had to write for my column. (Doesn't that sound cool? I'm a columnist.) Then I rushed back home to take Captain Chaos to his school Easter egg hunt.

After that, everything turned to shit. I won't bore you with all of the details. But after dodging the rain, giving up on the crappy WiFi signal at the mall coffee shop, and not being able to find a place to sit in the bookstore, I now only have a little over an hour before I have to be home.

At least I have some really cute egg hunting pictures to post later. :)