Do you go on vacation? Every time we've been blessed enough to take a real vacation, we promise to take more frequent ones. It never happens that way. Many people have "vacation resources" which we aren't lucky enough to have. You know like flying for free, staying with family or friends, mom or grandma's free condo... Stuff like that. We are going to Wolf Creek, Colorado to stay for a week and go skiing. We are so excited, we just about can't sleep at night - I don't think that's REALLY Landry's excuse, but we're going with it. I have to say, I'm not REALLY looking forward to thirteen hours in the car with my four girls... They can't hardly be in the same room without arguing about SOMETHING. So the car trip, could be interesting. I've said before, my loving husband is somewhat short on the patience side, so we'll see how far we get before he says "I'll turn this car around right here". It might be something more like "I'll let you out right here".
But, those are what memories are made of... right? I have some not-so-desirable memories of vacations with parents fighting and one letting the other out on the side of the road - with her four year old child, somewhere between Texas and Florida. One of those memories, I'd REALLY care to forget. The mere mention of vacation from then on was very tabu in our house. There were separate vacations after that. Then separations, period. Wow, enough of that, back to MY families' vacation. It's been almost three years since we have been on a family vacation. I can't believe it's been THAT long. It's difficult to travel in a party of five - now six. These past few years we've been lucky enough to send our children places - we just don't get to go :( Plus, we had a baby, which somewhat puts a kninkle in your travel itinerary.
So we're off to the slopes! A friend at work told me this morning they are bracing for a big snow storm in Colorado, much like the one they had between Christmas & New Years. I got somewhat panicked. After looking on the web for every travel forecast I could find, it looks like there will be some snow, but not too bad. I'll let you know! Wish us luck :)