
What I Learned From A Week On My Own
By Erin Ewart For the past week I've been on my own. My husband and kids went out of town, and I stayed behind to work and finish prepping for a trip we have coming up. The cat and dog are staying with family - so I was truly on my own, for the longest stretch in over nine years. That's right: for the first time in almost a decade I had a whole week with no one to wake up, feed, take on walks, put to bed, drop off, pick up, or clean up after. No one else. Just me. Everyone I shared this with had the same reaction: their eyes got wide and they asked “what are you going to DO?!” And I did a lot! I checked…