"freeeeeeeedom!"

if you had passed me cruising down lakeshore yesterday around 2 pm, you might have thought that william wallace was near...but alas, it was me headed to spend a few hours all by myself. 

 for a few minutes, i felt a little guilty that i was enjoying being by myself SO much, but then i remembered that it really is okay to want to have a little break every now and then. the strange thing about being a mom is how rare alone time really is. noah joins me when i take showers, go to the potty, eat, sleep, etc. unlike a full time job, there is no off time on the evenings and weekends...and it's a little wearing at times. 

so yesterday was my first true outing all by myself. i went and met my mom and sister for a few minutes at brookwood and then just walked around for a while. i got a new pair of shorts because the one bottoms i've been wearing of late are my early maternity pants. while the size of the shorts was a little bigger than i had hoped, i was thrilled to be buying clothing without a stretchy waistband! it's hard not having many things to wear these days. when i was preggo, i loved wearing clothing that showed off my burgeoning belly...but that isn't working out so well now because there's no baby hiding inside the belly that's left! and most of my pre-pregnancy clothes are still a little too small...and, well, i don't really want to buy many new things because i don't want to be at this size forever. but, i need some things to wear... tshirts and old maternity pants aren't going to work EVERY day! it's all such a dilemma. anywho, back to my fun afternoon... :) after the mall, i jetted by the grocery store to get a new thing of mylecon for noah-he's been much more gassy over this past week or so and these drops work wonders!! i just walked around the grocery store for a while enjoying the fact that i didn't have a baby in his huge carrier taking up all the room in my buggy...fortunately, we didn't really need anything since ryan, noah and i had been to the grocery just the day before. but, it was nice to wander freely. after this, i decided to go by babies r us really just to compare the price of the gas drops. i ended up finding quite  a few needful things including one of those sweet mirrors that i can put in the car above noah's carseat so i can see what's going on back there. i'm sure he makes all sorts of funny faces! it will also be helpful in playing the "where did you spit your paci to??" that's a tough game when you are driving down the road with a screaming baby who is demanding you find his paci ASAP!

so, that was my afternoon...nothing too amazing, but it was still quite enjoyable. thanks, ryan! :)