Time Out

The best kind of

rain, of course,

is a cozy rain.

~ Susan Toth,  England for All Seasons

My daughter and I

are having a 
time out.*


Not like the old days,
where she'd sit mournfully
on the bottom of the stairs
thinking over her behavior
while I cooled off.

No, this time we
are in it
together.

She took her PSAT's

in the morning but I let

her skip the afternoon

field trip to a university

that she has already seen.

The rain is coming down

hard and leaves are drifting

like confetti from the sky.

There is even thunder.

It's so cozy.

We've got popcorn popping

and Jane Austen's Emma

{the Gwenyth Paltrow version}

 is in stand-by mode, ready

for us to cuddle up and

and watch underneath the  

down comforter on my bed.

I have work I could 

be doing. 

She has homework 

she could be doing.

But this feels like 

something we should 

be doing, instead.

Because really, how many

more of her childhood days

will I have her all to myself,

savoring her laughter as we 

spend a couple of weekday

hours sheltered from the cares

of the world, tucked up 

next to each other?

Not enough.

Not nearly enough.

If you've never seen Emma, we

highly recommend it.  At the

beginning of the movie you won't 

be overly fond of our heroine, but

by the end you come to love

her, foibles and all.

It is a cozy movie 

for a cozy day.

Have you given 
yourself 
a time out, recently?

What did you do?
{Or what would you do?} 

I'd love to hear about it!

As for me, I'm grabbing

the popcorn and heading

under the eiderdown with my

time out partner-in-crime : )

The rain has started again

in earnest and right now,
there is nowhere else in 
the world that I'd rather be.

xx

Suzanne


*I wrote this on Wednesday;
today we are not in time out,
but back to our regularly-
scheduled lives.


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