New Wheels and a Week With No Kids Makes This Mama Lose Her Mind

It was a BIG weekend for us. Paige officially got her very first car. Technically, she started the process of purchasing it about 6 weeks ago. But the car was bought from one of James' coworkers for only $500 and there were a few things that needed to be done to it before it was road ready. Her license plates finally arrived on Friday, so we took the car in to have the new windshield put on for her that very same night. By Saturday afternoon, she was off! I mean it. Less than 10 minutes of having the car, she was gone.

James of course immediately started having a panic attack. I think he was looking at his phone every 5 minutes to see if the National Guard was calling because something might have happen to her. But she made it to and from work on her own for the first time safe and sound.

Paige and I actually have a lunch date tomorrow since the shop I work at is also putting new tires on the car for her. She worked really hard to purchase her car and we're beyond proud!

While James was busy stressing out about Paige driving, I was busy packing up Lena to spend her entire week long spring break at her best friend's new house. She's never spent that long anywhere but Grandma's house before, so agreeing to part with her for such an extended period of time was a big deal for me.

The little boy on the left is her best friend in the whole world and he moved over Christmas break. It's been 3 full months since they've seen each other since he now lives 2 hours away from us. They talk almost every day, but Lena's been in bit of a slump since he's been gone. She doesn't really play with any of the other kids in our neighborhood. I tried to get her to go out and ride her bike the other day while it was nice, but she asked me what's the point since her friend is not there anymore anyway. 

When his mom called last week and asked if she could take her for spring break, because he's missing her just as much as she's missing him, I sucked it up and let her go. I'm certain she's having a blast and I'm sure that's why she hasn't called her mother in 48 hours.

I'll be picking her up next Sunday, so that means that James and I have an entire week with no kids. The house was uncomfortably quiet for me last night after we took Anne home. So uncomfortably quiet in fact that I told James that maybe we should have another baby. We've tossed the subject around here and there, but in that moment I was dead serious about it.

I'm not really sure what to do with myself without a single kid in the house and it makes me wonder what I'm going to do in a few years when they're really gone.