The Ideal Day

This post is #11 (coming in on day 12) in my September Writing Project. Details are here.

Prompt: What’s an ideal day for you?

I had to defer this post to today, September 12. Publishing something about my ideal day on September 11 felt… not right. I wouldn’t say inappropriate. Good things have still happened on September 11. There are plenty of people who have birthdays on September 11, but I couldn’t wrap my brain around posting this yesterday, so here we are now.

I’m trying to figure out where my ideal day takes place. In my mind, I want time laying by a pool, but I also want to read by a fire and those two things don’t really sync up. So I’m going to write this for right now – mid-September in the midwest.

My (Realistic) Ideal Day

I’d start my day by sleeping in—but only until about 7:30. Funny what having kids does to you. I never thought I’d consider 7:30 sleeping in! Anyway, I’d wake up at 7:30 and then lay in bed for another 20 minutes because I like to wake up slowly. Eventually, the kids would come and and we’d all snuggle back in bed for a few more minutes. I love snuggly babies in the morning.

We’d head to Bloc Coffee Company for breakfast—pastries, avocado toast, lattes for me and T, and milk for the kiddos. It’s such a cool place to hang around and on my ideal day, my kids are capable of sitting still for 10 minutes while we enjoy a meal in public. I think we’d head to the park or go for a walk after that to let the kids expend some energy. 

When they’re exhausted and ready for some rest, we’d head home. I’d probably try to spend their nap doing the be.come project and reading a book. I feel 200% better when I’ve done both of those things. After that, I’d putter around the house with some good music blaring from the Songs speaker int he kitchen.

When the kiddos wake up, I foresee a movie. We used to have movie night every Saturday but have fallen out of the habit. I love snuggling up with them and putting on a Disney film. I love Princess and the Frog and Monsters Inc.

Then, we’re shipping the kids off to the grandparents! 🙂

I love a good happy hour and don’t partake in them nearly enough. We’d meet friends at Nada or the rooftop bar at the Residence downtown. After that, T and I would head to The Precinct for dinner, one of our all-time favorite places for a date night. Steak Collinsworth, a Freddie salad, the fancy macaroni and cheese with six kinds of cheese and a vodka tonic, please.

And then we need dessert. We might head to Pendleton Parlor for some chocolate chip cookie dough or Sweets-n-Eats for ice cream. Or both.

What’s a little crazy to me is that I could easily have this day.

I haven’t picked anything too extravagant. It might be hard to get all my friends together at once for a happy hour, but not impossible. The day is pretty attainable.

Does that mean I’m easily contented or that I’m not dreaming big enough? I say the former.

I also say that maybe this is what I should plan my next birthday (35!) to look like.