Sometimes the little breaks are the best.
I took a long weekend to spend with my family, my entire family (minus one very-missed brother-in-law). This is such a rare occurrence apart from any major holiday (meaning Christmas), that I couldn't resist traveling home, despite the ever-increasing gas prices. Somehow, at times like this, money is a means to get somewhere more important, to be with people who inspire and encourage me to continue with "normal" life, which is often quite boring.
None of us slept very much. And we ate too much, every day.
But we laughed a lot and we talked more than we ever used to, making the inconveniences disappear, for the most part.
Yesterday, Evan, Emily, Dad and myself resumed our stress-inducing regular lives: distracted from the disappointment and letdown of a week beginning and a fabulous weekend fading away by the details.
Today, Leslie reconvened her march: over 1,000 miles left, 3 months to go.
Tomorrow, Emily and the girls head back to their desert to take up where they left off: QuickBooks, anyone?
Even though this week and the next may be my most trying and exhausting this summer, I'd do it again. I'd go home and spend time with the only people who consistently love me and challenge me to be a better individual. How could I not love them?
Cheers to time well spent. To laughter and games and dark chocolate s'mores.
2 comments:
I couldn't have put it better myself! You are correct on all levels. I had a wonderful time this weekend, even if exhausting. It was worth every second... and here's three cheers for Dark Chocolate Smores.
Love,
Ev
The high points:
*The cousin-fest
*Black raspberry crisp
*More pictures than time
*The Fulton County Fair, baby!
*Half-asleep gaming
*Maddie's hour-long Methodist
church service re-creation
*Scarf dancing
*Ground hogs and ground squirrels
*And, of course, Dark Chocolate
Smores
Where else could a student, a banker, a couple of salespeople, a bookkeeper, a hiker/teacher, some moms and small children gather and enjoy the same things at the same time? And that doesn't even count the extended clan!
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