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After 18 years of marrage and a hers mine and ours type of arrangement, after years of school cloths shopping, homework, last minute projects on Sunday nights, track, cheer, football, baseball-lots of baseball, soccer, drivers training, cell phones, curfues, principals, coaches, broken window-cars-furnature-virtually everything, endless friends, sleepovers, move ins and outs, and an inconcievable amount of groceries....it comes around.

Our collection of children have surprised us with a week long trip to Kauai next week. Bam! that there's a good brood a chickens!
My prize and I have never been on a week vacation (other than camping with them and all their friends) since we began the voyage 18 years ago. Let alone gong somewhere that far or warm. Simply humbling.

I'm describing it like this. There is a good chance we won't come back. It's kinda like letting the dog out of the yard and they go ape shit because they've never seen past the fence before. I'm gonna run stupid until my tongue is hangin out and I need to lie in the shade. I'm gonna lose my way and get picked up by the Hawaiian dog pound and I won't be wearing a collar. I'll be euthanized with a smile on my face and a mouthful of pineapple. Maybe I'll put a chip in my ear.

As of next Sunday, I'm a traveler but with my eyes open for the illusive Hawaiian Oak tree.

What a great post!! Please let me know how you like it. My fiancé and I are deciding between the Virgin Islands and Hawaii. I took her to Atlantis in the Bahamas after I proposed. You are right in that you REALLY don't want to come back

NICE enjoy!!!

Congrats! Have a blast.

Haha that is what I said when we went to California 2 years ago. San Diego could probably tempt me, but driving through California from Las Vegas the landscape was too brown for me, I miss the green grass. On the way home went through Yuma and asked the tempature it was 102 at 9am.

California trip we drove and went through 15 states. I guess this summer I'll find out what Orlando Florida is like an possibly go through 18 states. The drives are long, but it gives my wife and I enjoy the chance to see things we've never seen.

Pretty fun traveling, before I was married I had never been more than 500 miles away from Minneapolis. Been to Jamaica, Paris, Washington DC and soon to be Florida.

mrhart wrote:After 18 years of marrage and a hers mine and ours type of arrangement, after years of school cloths shopping, homework, last minute projects on Sunday nights, track, cheer, football, baseball-lots of baseball, soccer, drivers training, cell phones, curfues, principals, coaches, broken window-cars-furnature-virtually everything, endless friends, sleepovers, move ins and outs, and an inconcievable amount of groceries....it comes around.

Our collection of children have surprised us with a week long trip to Kauai next week. Bam! that there's a good brood a chickens!
My prize and I have never been on a week vacation (other than camping with them and all their friends) since we began the voyage 18 years ago. Let alone gong somewhere that far or warm. Simply humbling.

I'm describing it like this. There is a good chance we won't come back. It's kinda like letting the dog out of the yard and they go ape shit because they've never seen past the fence before. I'm gonna run stupid until my tongue is hangin out and I need to lie in the shade. I'm gonna lose my way and get picked up by the Hawaiian dog pound and I won't be wearing a collar. I'll be euthanized with a smile on my face and a mouthful of pineapple. Maybe I'll put a chip in my ear.

As of next Sunday, I'm a traveler but with my eyes open for the illusive Hawaiian Oak tree.

That was so eloquent and heartfelt, I immediately shared it with my wife. She had been practically begging for a vacation just a couple hours ago, following a long weekend of rising early for kids sports and church ushering. (At least she did't have to tote a gazillion bags of mulch for the Boy Scout fundraiser early Saturday morning.) Our youngest two, the twins, are almost 14. So only 4 more years until we can join you in Paradise!

BuckeyeDennis wrote:Our youngest two, the twins, are almost 14. So only 4 more years until we can join you in Paradise!

Unless they stick around till their 26.

beeg wrote:Unless they stick around till their 26.

Isn't that legal grounds for "justifiable" homicide?

Stay home long is the new normal. Parents have to afford what children can't.

At least is what the statistics say. I have a 16 y/o and an 11 y/o so don't know yet.

Ed

eartigas wrote:Stay home long is the new normal. Parents have to afford what children can't.

At least is what the statistics say. I have a 16 y/o and an 11 y/o so don't know yet.

Ed

Sounds like a self fulfilling prophecy. Where is the 'incentive' to become 'self supporting'?

Struggle begets gumption.

My own standard of living was back then waaaay below what kids today consider 'normal/typical'(and I am sure my father's was even further below).