Thursday, May 4, 2017

Treat Yo Self

In March Martin went to Sweden for his annual family ski holiday for a week.  And even with help from my mom two nights, I quickly came to appreciate that being a single mom is no joke. In the seven days I was fully in charge, Oskar came down with a fever, a rash on his arm, unidentifiable scratches on his legs and slept in bed with me for two nights.  But I survived and so did Oskar and I had three weekend getaways on the books to treat myself (and take a break from all of the craziness my life has been recently.)

The first weekend away was to Sonoma for wine tasting and fancy dinners out.  It was spent with my San Francisco / Colorado girls, a group of six strong women who definitely know how to spoil themselves.  I had to bring my A Game to this weekend and tried my best to look stylish, well rested and carefree.


A few weekends later, I was off to Calistoga for a one night spa momcation with my mom friends of North Beach.  We left San Francisco early Sunday morning and kicked off the trip with Philz coffee to enjoy on the drive up.  The 24 hour trip was a chance for us to enjoy the time away for the kids by doing things unavailable to us in normal life:  facials and massages, reading books by the pool, a relaxing glass of champagne while we took our time getting ready, fancy drinks by the creek downtown, beers at a dive bar and a late night dinner at the Thai joint in town.  We ended the night with all four women in pajamas in one of our king beds watching TV and drinking wine. 




I wrapped up my tour of “me” with a long weekend in NYC with my Zurich Girls: Kim, Petra and Anna.  It was the perfect combination of the two previous weekends: fancy dinners, shopping like we had no budget, a lively piano bar and plenty of time to catch up on life and family.



Not to miss out, I do have one final weekend planned with the SLO girls in June to meet Baby Kelsey!  But in the meantime, I am happy to be home with no other plans but to spend the time with Oskar and Martin. 

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