Home Alone

I'm finding that leaving for a few days is much more complicated when you're married than it is when you're single. When I was single, I could just pack what I needed and leave. I didn't have to stock up on anything, because I wasn't going to be home to use it anyway. I didn't have to make sure clothes were clean, because I wouldn't be home to wear them. But now it's a whole different story! I'm leaving in the morning for a workshop in Kemah with my good friends Melissa and Katy. I'll be gone until Friday evening, so that's 5 days and 4 nights that I'll be leaving my poor hubby home alone! I've worked harder to get ready to leave than I will at the workshop I think! I've made sure that he has enough clean clothes to last him the week, I've made notes of things that must be done while I'm gone (feed the cat, water the plants, etc.), I've gone on-line to schedule bill payments for this week, and now I'm about to go to the grocery store to stock up on everything he'll need for the next few days, and then I'll cook a few dinners so he can just reheat them. Otherwise he would eat fast food all week. How many of you think he'll eat fast food anyway and not even eat what I leave? I guess I'll discover the answer to that Friday evening. I would like to make sure the house is all spic and span before I leave too, so that when he comes home to an empty house it will at least be wonderfully clean, but that might not happen; we'll see.

All this preparing to leave has made me exhausted...I think I need a vacation! I wonder if Melissa and Katy have had to do all this too?!