Journal
FOLLOW ALONG WITH OUR BIG, BRAVE, MESSY FAMILY AS WE FIGURE OUT THIS MAGICAL LIFE OF OURS, FILLED WITH LOVE, + HARD STUFF, + MORE CHICKENS THAN YOU CAN SHAKE A STICK AT HERE ON SALT SPRING ISLAND.
PARENTS, LISTEN UP! WE NEED VACATIONS TOO!
PARENTS NEED VACATIONS
This was our mantra as Katherine and I snuck away from our suburban family life for 4, childless nights in the Bahamas.
“But didn’t you just GET back from vacation?!?” I can hear you ask quizzically.
No miggy figgys!!! No, I did not just get back from a vacation, I just got back from a trip! With my kids. Where we do all of the same crap like laundry, and cooking, and fighting over screen time, and bedtimes and all of it, but we do it in a new, more challenging place, without any of our creature comforts!
WHAT DOES A FULL LIFE FEEL LIKE? OVERWHELM OF COURSE
The state of my “cloffice” (closet-office hybrid) is a direct match for the state on my inner world.
One look at my desk and you’ll know where in the scale of overwhelm/somethings going on, I am. Right now I’m at about an 7/10. My Cloffice is creeping up to an 8.
But before everyone freaks out and checks in on me, asking if I’m okay and how they can help, know that it’s not always bad to be high up there on the scale. Sometimes being at a 7, 8 or even 9 just means we are living a big, full sometimes stressful life. Because that’s how we grow. That’s how we change, that’s how we make our dreams come true.