Mother Daughter weekend

So I've had a pretty tough couple of weeks and on Friday I'd decided I'd had it. I had tossed around several ideas of plans for my first full weekend off in a while and all were exciting but most weren't really working out. On Friday I decided (with a little help from my lovely Anne) that I had to get out of town and get a different perspective for a couple of days. Many of my friends had stuff going on in town this weekend or other various things so I decided that I needed my mommy! Now if you know me very well you know that I don't say that nearly as often as I should. I'm just not a mommy girl but this weekend I was a mommy girl. I called mom up and told her to pack her bags we were going to the beach for the weekend whether she liked it or not! Well she loved the idea but my step-dad didn't (shocker) which led to an interesting conversation but in the end she got to steal away for the weekend with me!
I can't remember the last time mom and I had a whole weekend to ourselves! We stayed in the Spadaro's in VB even though Erin wasn't there haha. It was wonderful! I got to go to the beach, have Skinny Dip (easy people it's a frozen yogurt joint), laugh, talk about God with my mom, and most of all not have to worry about work. It was a good rejuvenating weekend for me. Sully and I ate way too much though and are still paying for that!
I am so blessed to have a mom that would drop everything for me even though she still has two children at home (even though I had to remind her that she had 3 children not 2 the other day!). She loves me and is so proud of me and I feel that every day. It's so nice to be able to take her somewhere and let her do something different and that she loves away from the stresses of two teenage boys. I am also so very blessed to have wonderful friends who come from wonderful parents (weird how that happens huh) who love me like a daughter even when their own daughter is not around. It's so amazing to be able to have close adult relationships with adults older than you and still laugh and talk like you normally would with your peers. I had so much fun this weekend and it has renewed my spirit and allowed me to work another week. Just another little reminder of how God takes care of me and puts others in my life to take care of me as well. What an awesome God!