I got
this e-mail and while looking for a picture to submit, I started to cry. I want not just to go back to that location, but back in time. I want that size belly again, it was big enough that most people figured I was pregnant but not so large that I needed to hoist it up just so I could pee.
I want that warm weather, sunshine, sand, and ocean. I want to float in the ocean with a virgin pina colada.
I want my daily itinerary to once again be: wake up with breakfast on the patio of our swim-up suite, hang out in the cabana, eat 2 lunches, take a nap, then eat dinner. I want that tan back.
And now it's dawning on me that it was probably the last great vacation we will ever have. After paying for medical expenses, diapers, and daycare how could we ever afford it? And who would want to watch our dog
and kid for 10 days? Or a better questions - will we be those parents that are so terrified of leaving their child, that we trust no one to take care of him/her? And if we do win the lottery and find a
poor sucker wonderful friend/family member to babysit, I'm sure all we'll do it talk about what our kid is doing & how much we miss him/her, which I would hardly call a relaxing vacation.
Well, it was nice while it lasted.
I feel ya, but now we can go on vacation as couples with their kids... and as "not relaxing" as that may sound, it'll be a new kind of happiness and fun. I'm sure we can manage. Or we'll bring my mom along too to watch the kids while we all go out and relax. :)
ReplyDeleteI think that's the problem a lot of us late-twenty-somethings have when we have kids.. We are so used to our life as it is that we get scared thinking about what we will be giving up when we have kids. When you are 20 and you start having kids it's different because you aren't used to the vacations, weekends out of town, etc etc. But I know you will enjoy vacation in a much better way and think "how could I have lived without him/her" !!
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