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for whom... i think vacations are overrated. who can relax with three kids in a fifth floor high-rise condo with two swimming pools and the beach 30 feet away? i would have more fun staying home, turning on the sprinkler, and letting the kid?s friends com
e over to have fun. it?s all the preparing, packing, loading of the car, unpacking, repacking, unpacking again, and the inevitable piles of clothes to wash when you return that make it difficult. we would always plan to go on vacation right after school was out. after all the years of planning vacations, you would think i would have perfected the art of vacation 101. my best friend left to go on vacation last week. they were headed for disney world with four kids and her husband. she asked if i would feed her cats and collect their mail while they were gone. she lives in the subdivision and being a cat person, i had no problem feeding her purr-babies and collecting their mail. she called yesterday and said they were having a wonderful time. i think she was lying. i remember when we took an activity-filled vacation at disney world. it was our family (eight of us), my sister?s family (six of them), and another couple with their crew. we began the six-car caravan late at night, thinking everyone in the car would sleep and then when they woke up, they would be in a good mood and we could stop for breakfast. that?s when it all started. they all woke up at different times, some were hungry, some needed a pit stop. others never woke up at all and slept the entire drive. and once we arrived, there was so much coordi- nating with schedules from meeting up for lunch to remembering who went which direction and with whom. it was as if i was back at work. not exactly, what i had imagined. on the drive home, everyone talked about how much fun we had. and you know, it really wasn?t that bad staying in a two-bedroom condo with four tweens for six days. and it wasn?t such a big deal that it rained two mornings in a row. they are cer- tainly memories i will take with me in years to come. so as i sit in the backyard with the kids, watching them enjoy the sprinkler once more, i heard myself say, ?wow, there were bright spots on the trip, and i did make a lot of good memories. boy, i can?t wait for next summer!? did i really just say that? stay connected enter to win free goodies and be the first to know what's going on around town at brparents
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