#1 the list-getting caught up

I think this blopg may be magic. Until today, I have been complaining about never having time to write. Since I joined last night, my son had a playdate, and my baby took two, count 'em two, naps! So, I've had some writing time. I love lists, and I love fiction about women who leave! So: After ten years of marriage, a woman empties her bank account and vanishes into the night, leaving two small kids and a loving husband. Why?

1. He is SO not loving.
2. She can't give out one more phony smile to the playground moms, and this morning she accidentally delivered moldy muffins to the bake sale.
3. She found an old diary from her days as an escort, along with a deposit slip for more money than her husband pulls in in a month. She's following the money!
4. Her husband is not really as nice as he seems, her son is growing up to be just like him and her daughter adores her mother-in-law.
5. She accidentally left the neighbor kid in her car after bringing home groceries, he's in the hospital with heat stroke, and she's sure the neighbors are going to press charges.
6. She really wants follow her dream of being a Rockette.
7. The mysterious man she dated before she met her husband resurfaced and convinced her to follow him on a spiritual quest.
8. No-one appreciates her.
9. After her first night out alone in months, just a trip to the library, she just doesn't go home. She also takes two canvas bags of book aloong with her and she's NEVER returning them!
10. She was kidnbapped.
11. Her mother is unhappy in her marriage and she asks her daughter, who would do anything for her, to go away with her to think things through, in secret, of course.
12. She is a terrorist.
13. Motherhood is too much for her, she can't take one more day of it.
14. While getting ready for bed one night she notices her image in the mirror is fading, anxiety to find herself drives her to hop in the car and drive.
15. A woman who wants the life she has, including hubby and kids, has our heroine kidnapped.
16. All of a sudden she remembers she has a whole other family clear across the country.
17. After she is gone her husband discovers a secret bookshelf full of travel books, exotic destinations, and travel memoirs.
18. She is writing a book about women who leave so she decides to become a woman who left and see what it feels like.
19. She has cancer.
20. A woman who looks just like her has been coming to her in her dreams telling her to go to Utah.