Happy Mother's Day to Me!

Some positively brilliant person at our church scheduled the week-end-long women's retreat at the beach for this coming week-end.  I'm going.

I'm driving with a friend and we are planning to leave the house at 8 a.m. tomorrow, to arrive around 10 a.m.  The retreat does not start until 7 p.m., and we're not even allowed to check in -- not even with the preferred membership status my friend has -- until 1 p.m.  We don't care:  we're mothers of small children and we're going to make every minute of silence count!

The other great thing is that Costa Rican mothers day is in August.  And it's a national holiday, so I'm set for this year!

I'm going to miss my husband and my kids. I'm going to miss getting snuggles and sloppy kisses on Sunday.  But I'm planning to work very hard to make up for that the rest of the year!