Abandoning the Men

This post is long over due but the memories are still fresh in my mind so I will blog away. For several months Mi Amiga's and I had been planning a girls weekend away. This weekend would take place in beautiful North Conway, New Hampshire where Jen's Mom and Dad happen to have a beautiful home. You can imagine the coordinating and scheduling that took place for three very busy ladies to make this happen - you know kid schedules, work-schedules, husband schedules, meal schedules (pre-made meals would be me as my hubbie's only question when I told him I was planning a girls weekend away was "What will I eat?) In other words all the planets would have to align in the universe.

Well Mother Nature would not let us off so easy. Lo and behold 6 days prior to our much anticipated weekend the meteorologists start tracking the Blizzard of 2013 - "Nemo" why they have taken to naming all storms now is beyond me. So it begins - Do we go? Do we not go? Do we leave earlier? Do we re-schedule?  After several conversations and support from the husbands, it is decided we leave Thursday night to get a jump start on the storm.

We are excited and happy and kid free for the weekend. We talk about what we will do, where we will go, what we will eat and so on.

We arrive safely and sleep well on some of the most comfortable beds imaginable. We wake up to snow on Saturday morning which continues at a steady rate throughout the day. That does not stop us from going out to breakfast, picking up some groceries, renting movies,  and shopping.

Of course we are in touch with the men back home who confirm that the Blizzard is well on it's way. The wind is picking up and the snow is piling up. But they assure us they are fine, after all we are married to some pretty resourceful men!

We have the time of our lives and are just slightly stressed when two out of our three households lose power. Maybe a little more stressed when the power is still  out on Sunday. Dan was the fortunate one and reports he has spent the weekend watching "B" movies and eating the mounds of Chicken Stir-fry I have made for him.

We laugh alot, eat alot (well at least I do) take naps, watch movies (5 to be exact), cry a little, and have deep and long heart felt conversation.

We are grateful for each other and for our men who do not once complain that we have abandoned them during the Blizzard of 2013

Here's to Good Friends and Good Men!