Dear Santa, I think I’ve been pretty good this year. I might deserve a present or two. So let me tell you what I would like to see under the tree. N O T H I N G.
All I want for Christmas is me. Me alone, all by myself, with my family nowhere to be seen. Seriously, dear husband and kids; please, forget about buying me knick knacks, earrings and other things I don’t want or need. I know it’s a little hard to wrap up and pile with the other presents, but the only thing I really and truly desire is time to myself.
I want to read a novel. No, I don’t want you to go out and buy me a novel. I want to read one of the several books already collecting dust in a pile on our mantel.
I want to sit in a coffee shop. No, I don’t want to go to a coffee shop with you. I want to go by myself and not recognize another living soul in the place and just sit at a table all by myself and do I don’t even know what, something frivolous, something useless.
I want to watch some TV show or movie that is both not appropriate for my kids, and also unbearably boring for my husband.
I want someone else to scrub the toilets, get the kids to the bus stop, and cook dinner.
I want to be left alone, all alone, for multiple hours in a row.
I want naps.
If you are Scrooge then I'm in good company.
There is nothing the matter with wanting time to yourself and I admire you for saying it.
I hope you get your wish this year.
Besos, Sarah
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You are definitely not alone! Since we don't have any family around, one of us is always with the kids, 24/7 (mostly me). My sanity saver is this: I do grocery shopping alone, after my husband gets home from work, once or twice a week. I'm always in awe of the families that do shopping all together – it must take an enormous amount of time and money (because everyone wants something not on the list). So, sometimes I spend all the time shopping ALONE, but often I can still carve some time to myself, even if it's just reading my book in the car 🙂
I love this, I completely understand and agree