I Have 4 Days to Myself and I Might Lose My Mind
By Miri Lenoff
·May 19, 2026
I am about to do something I have not done in a very long time.
Focus completely on myself.
In a few days I am dropping the kids off at sleepaway camp and heading straight to Atlanta to stay with my cousin for 4 days. No schedule. No obligations. No one needing anything from me. Just me, my thoughts, and all the time in the world to actually use them.
And honestly? I cannot wait.
I am going to write. I am going to plan. I am going to work as deep and as long as I want without anyone interrupting me.
Because yes, I love my job. Like actually love it. Building this business, working with my clients, figuring out what is next. That is mine and I am proud of it. But when you are also running a household and raising kids and managing everything at once, even the things you love get squeezed into the margins.
Not this week.
I am going to run for as long as I can without worrying about when to come home. I am going to sleep in. I am going to eat my food while it is still hot. I am going to finish a thought.
If you are a mom, you just felt that.
We are really good at taking care of everything and everyone. The kids, the house, the clients, the calendar, the mental load of approximately one thousand things at all times. We do it because we love it and because we are built for it. But somewhere in the middle of all of that, we forget that we are also just a person who has things she wants to do.
This week I am coming back to that person. Not in a dramatic way. Just in a "I am going to sleep past 6am" and "nobody is going to need a snack" kind of way.
What would you do with 4 days completely to yourself?