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How often do you get out of the house alone?
I babysit all week and can't leave the house so I rarely get out anymore.. I am finding it more and more necessary to have an hour or two a week of "me" time out of the house..
Kristy
Re: How often do you get out of the house alone?
A lot. I usually try to go out to dinner with a friend, any friend, like once a week. Sometimes it doesn't happen, sometimes it's two times in a week. I have a mothers helper come once a week, and on days I work I have the sitter till 6. I get out of work around 4-4:30 and either do what I have to do on my way home or just come home and don't tell them I'm home until 6p.
My me time is extremely important to me so I make it happen.
I assume you mean besides food shopping? lol
A few times a month maybe? January is awesome - I feel like I've had at least one thing every week. I feel like a social butterfly.
*always remembering Annaleigh Lucy*
my 2-3 days a week that i work are "me time"
I usually do shopping on the way home from work... and at lunch time if i don't have a lunch appt, I eat alone and read, which i LOOOOVE. In the summer I will get a pedi during my lunch sometimes...
for me going to the grocery store alone is also "me time" - i like doing it... so i'll go on weekends when the kids are napping... and go out with the girls a couple times a month.
I think i get a good amount of me time.
During the day? I have Mon and Tues mornings to myself. On the weekends, I get time.
At night? I get a lot. I have every Friday night "off", do date nights with DH, my knitting group, out to dinner with friends, my Mom's Night Out, etc.
Once a month I go to dinner with the girls I coach with. I also coach twice a week do that time, too. Otherwise everything is with Julia. I don't necessarily want time with others, but id love to be able to go to the mall alone to try clothes on or get a hair cut or (gasp!) go to the doctors alone.
Ah that reminds me.....I actually did go to the doctor 2 weeks ago. I purposely got there 30 minutes early so I Could read in peace and quiet. This couple came in with their two young kids. The kids were loud, which is fine, they are kids and I've perfected the art of blocking out small children. And I'm not one of those "ugh, kids!" people......BUT.....their parents were all "that's a kindle....it's like your iPad Joshua. Maybe the lady will show you!". really????
I was like that the first few months. I'd still go, and I'd be fine on my way to my destination, then get anxious once I was there and I'd book back. It does go away.
Well I work FT out of the house so I'm essentially out of the house alone from 9-5 each day.
Aside from that I'm only really out of the house alone once a week for an exercise class.
Unless there's something I need to do during the week, i just hang out at home once DH gets home. Once in a blue moon i'll take a hot bath on a weeknight while DH does all the kid stuff and gets them to bed.
On weekends it varies, sometimes we'll all go run errands, other times i'll just say "see ya" and go. It really depends what we've got going on.
OMG Seriously?!
*always remembering Annaleigh Lucy*
Mangia! My Family Table
LOL yes!!!! This guy was so annoying. When they walked in he started a conversation with me about his kids and I just did the polite smile, nod, look back at my book. I did wind up showing the kid because I was just dumbfounded.
well i work so i have 9 hours out of the house.
i TRY and get out on my lunch break or grab a mani on the weekend or smetihng. but its hard. i don't get a lot of just ME time.
but the TWO of us go out usually once or twice a month. this month is big since we where out last sat/this sat and away next weekend. but than again we won't be really doing anything again till late march
Excluding work and the three hours of commuting daily and the occasional solo grocery trip? Almost never. Yay me! (Excuse the sarcasm. Had conversation yesterday with a stay at home mom who has "help" almost daily for her gym trips, coffees with friends, required manicures, etc., all the while telling me how "lucky" I am to get out of the house daily (to work, which sucks), I'm feeling a bit bitter right now!
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I got food shopping every Tues night alone. Sadly that's my weekly ME time. Prob go out with the girls once a month - sometimes twice depending on what's going on.
I just started back up with Zumba classes so now every Thurs I do that too. But I consider that me time.
I def take more me time than DH though. He's so exhausted from work he'd rather stay home and have his me time there while I'm out and the kids are sleeping.