Breathing again and finding priorities
I did something I haven't done in years. Years! I took time off. I did NOT work for a week. I haven't had this opportunity in 3 - count 'em - 3 years! My last real time off was when I went to Geneva with my boyfriend. I've taken a day here, a day there off since but no significant time doing something I wanted to do. In fact, I haven't left Silver Spring for more than 18 hours in nearly a year (since my mom fell). It felt good. Well, not at first. At first, I was still stressed. I was thinking of the money I was not making. I was thinking of Kid #1's braces and Kid #2's braces and their camp expenses and the cost of their continually growing feet and all of that. Then I didn't care that much. In my perfect world, I would have taken them to Puerto Rico (on my bucket list) or a beach but a pricey vacation was out and it was raining all week. So we came up with Plan B. It started with our last White House Easter Eg...