Oh my goodness...how has it been a week already?!? At this rate I will be 70 in about a month and a half!
So in thinking about confession today, I will relate to you the gist of the conversation yesterday evening between my husband and myself.
The summer...Tom and I have been considering another trip out west this summer. Many factors though...We have taken two previous trips out west with our family. This first was a 7 weeks adventure in 2002 and the second was a 5 week jaunt in 2006. In 2002 I was still a classroom teacher with a long summer break. By 2006 I had taken my current position as Instructional Technology Specialist (sounds so official, doesn't it?!?) and I work 11 months, so the break is shorter. Tom and I both suffer incurably from wanderlust. God created all of this beautiful country, surely He wants us to go see it all. However, if we go this summer, we will only have three and a half weeks this time. Is it really worth in totally unbelievably high price of gas for three and a half weeks? This is just one of the dilemmas. Sure, it's expensive, but is it really going to go down in the future? Yeah...right. And then there is all of the miscellaneous "stuff" that needs doing around the house on which we could spend the money. I mean since we moved back in after the renovation last year, we still have no flower borders...not a bit of landscaping anywhere around the house...just grass. And we try to kill it every week with the lawn mower. We still have odds and ends in the house as well...yes, it's been a year this month...no, they still are not done. I am almost finished painting...almost. Then there is the car issue...my oldest will get a license very soon...in a month. Sure would be nice to have her drive to all of the "stuff" she attends as opposed to me chauffeuring her everywhere.
Then we consider the timing...This is probably the last summer that we will be able to go before all of the kids start to become so obligated that it is not feasible. Joanna's next summer will be spent on a senior mentorship for six weeks. I will probably be schlepping her back and forth to Langley NASA every day for six weeks. (See previous chauffeuring statement) That summer will be tied up, and the following summer will be college prep stuff...not to mention we will have no money probably for trips (See college prep statement) And Charlotte is right behind her...
So do we just say, "what the heck" and throw all practicality to the wind and get the sleeping bags ready? It would be nice to do that, but I am getting too old to just blow off everything and be impulsive...Dang...I have become my parents. How did this happen? I guess that is an entirely different post. I will let you know...I am saving my pennies just in case though.
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Throw caution to the wind and do it. I believe we have more regrets about the things we DIDN'T do much more than the things we DID do.
You won't regret going. Buy all generic foods and stash some cash....consign some clothes. Just do it. Life is short and precious.
I am inclined to agree with you...I know my husband does! I guess I figure at least one of us should be cautious :) We shall see...I am lining up my ducks just in case we are able to swing it.
The ducks want to go.:)
Come out west. Like, say to Dallas!
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