Places or Trips?

I am not sure what to call my trips to places? I feel like, as a mother, it is hard to get away it is easy to get away when you have a lot of supportive family and a divorced situation where you must get away. To stay at home, when your children are visiting their Dad, is really to be mopey. These trips are to satisfy the requirement of having fun and not moping, until my children return unscathed. I love my children. I love my friends. I love trips. It is a lot of fun to find the balance as a single mother, who mopes without kids, but smiles with friends.

When I grow up, I would love to be a single mother of four children, I would love to find the beauty of each day and celebrate life no matter what challenges life brings. To find happiness, is to look for what is already provided and seize each opportunity that comes along. To be a mother is to inherit an innate happiness that is worth the moments of being like unto a "non-mother" who hangs out with her friends and goes places. It looks very gloomy to go out and have fun, but rest assured watching children eat cereal in the morning is equally, if not more, charming. I love my life. I love my children. I love my friends.