Step 1: Arrange to be born on Nov 10, so that you will always have the day off after your birthday, and often, your birthday as well.
Step 2: Go to the cabin on Thursday night with youngest child, whose best friend lives on the island. This is basically like going to the cabin by yourself.
Step 3: Wake up in cozy cabin, and write several blog posts and reply to birthday emails and texts.
Step 4: Go shopping in Whidbey by yourself, finding some fun deals at some favorite stores. Yes, one of them was definitely a thrift store.
Step 5: Stop by a little restaurant I’ve had my eye on and get take out that only you would love– smokey lentil soup and butternut squash with roasted kale salad to eat back at the cabin.
Step 6: Take a short run down to the beach, then challenge your balance and bouldering skill by making it from the beach to Sandy Point beach with high tide covering most of the way, without swimming. Bring the Audible of the final book in the Rook & Rose trilogy.
Step 7: Have a curious seal make fun of you after you’ve clamored over a particularly large stump covered with dead brambles. Grin back. Fail to sneak up on the heron that’s keeping his suspicious eye on you.
Step 8: Curl up in a bedroom chair with lit candles and holiday tea.
Step 9: Greet Dwayne and meet friends at a local farm-to-table restaurant I’ve been wanting to try since it opened. Try not to think about the girls driving over together while we are out.
Step 10: Oh, dear. Find out that Wes could not figure out how to bake the ready-to-bake pizza I left for him with strict instructions to have dinner ready for Kyla when she arrived as she doesn’t handle hangry well. Get all sorts of texts during (a phenomenal) dinner about the hurt feeling and arguments. Ignore as many as possible but have a nearly perfect day tarnished by true childish idiocy. Sigh.
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