the Monday after vacation blues
I highly recommend going on vacation after Christmas. It was so wonderful to celebrate the Christmas season....and then get on a plane and fly away for a week and a half. Many of you tolerated the photos I posted daily....which were a request from the grandparents left back home in Iowa. They did help us get there.....so they deserved to be in on the travel-log. While I was away my sweet friend Jen came back into our house and finished our entry way remodel project....and painted 2 more rooms and updated my furniture and walls and many, many other details....so I came home to a fresh and clean home. I also highly recommend having really good friends....and a mom who will help them.
The unfortunate thing about going on vacation after Christmas is that you do lots of fun things and spend money.....and then, if you are 3 people out of 100,000 you might be lifting your carry- on into the overhead cabin of the airplane on the way home at 10am in Arizona and you might feel a pop and find that you have torn your bicep muscle clean away.....and that the muscle has rolled up your arm. Then you go to urgent care when you land and then you go to an outpatient clinic 2 days later. You get x-rays and see ortho specialists and schedule MRI and surgery......in the first week of the new year's deductible. That's the less fun part of vacation after Christmas. Especially if you are my husband. Poor guy.
Another thing that isn't so fun about going on vacation after Christmas is that after you had an awesome time and made lots of memories.....you come home and have to pack away all of the Christmas things. Our tree, that we chopped down a few days after Thanksgiving, still smells absolutely amazing. But today, on Monday, it is standing naked in the corner of the living room. It looks really sad. No glittery balls or lights. It is headed out to the curb tonight so that the garbage service can pick it up in the morning.
Precious and I had her bi-annual pediatric appointment in Sioux Falls this morning. We stopped at Target to buy her and Joe some long sleeve things.....and some replacement pants. ( It will be winter in Iowa for about 3 months yet. ) New clothes, especially cheap ones from Target, really help. I got 2 new candles even tho we aren't supposed to burn candles anymore and should diffuse oils instead. Guess what? I do both. I need the calming flicker of candle light tonight. I need it to feel peaceful and warm and cozy. I'll load up my diffuser as well because I am a steadfast believer in the powers of the essential oils.....but I need me some candle light tonight people.
It is Monday. We are facing a week....as are all of you. Lets do our best to find all the coping mechanism tools in the tool box and use them......
The unfortunate thing about going on vacation after Christmas is that you do lots of fun things and spend money.....and then, if you are 3 people out of 100,000 you might be lifting your carry- on into the overhead cabin of the airplane on the way home at 10am in Arizona and you might feel a pop and find that you have torn your bicep muscle clean away.....and that the muscle has rolled up your arm. Then you go to urgent care when you land and then you go to an outpatient clinic 2 days later. You get x-rays and see ortho specialists and schedule MRI and surgery......in the first week of the new year's deductible. That's the less fun part of vacation after Christmas. Especially if you are my husband. Poor guy.
Another thing that isn't so fun about going on vacation after Christmas is that after you had an awesome time and made lots of memories.....you come home and have to pack away all of the Christmas things. Our tree, that we chopped down a few days after Thanksgiving, still smells absolutely amazing. But today, on Monday, it is standing naked in the corner of the living room. It looks really sad. No glittery balls or lights. It is headed out to the curb tonight so that the garbage service can pick it up in the morning.
Precious and I had her bi-annual pediatric appointment in Sioux Falls this morning. We stopped at Target to buy her and Joe some long sleeve things.....and some replacement pants. ( It will be winter in Iowa for about 3 months yet. ) New clothes, especially cheap ones from Target, really help. I got 2 new candles even tho we aren't supposed to burn candles anymore and should diffuse oils instead. Guess what? I do both. I need the calming flicker of candle light tonight. I need it to feel peaceful and warm and cozy. I'll load up my diffuser as well because I am a steadfast believer in the powers of the essential oils.....but I need me some candle light tonight people.
It is Monday. We are facing a week....as are all of you. Lets do our best to find all the coping mechanism tools in the tool box and use them......
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