looks inviting
- the lists, the errands
- hours on the computer: monitoring kids schoolwork, paying bills, banking, placing orders, making reservations, doing research, filing forms, renewing library books, keeping up with the news, responding to e-mail, blogging.
- spare moments spent returning phone messages
- doctoring and dentisting
- home just long enough to make a mess but not long enough to clean it up due to driving kids near and far for intense, time-consuming activities
- rotisserie chicken. . . again?
- on hold with the insurance company for 48 minutes today
- 3 grocery stores required to complete 1 grocery list
- daily mountain of mail
- maintaining, disinfecting, shredding, recycling
After many months of modern life, we are about to blow. So, naturally, I just spent the better part of 3 days online trying to find an affordable hotel in a nearby metropolis that meets all of our requirements. It all feels a little crazy.
In simpler days, we would have picked up and left, confident that we would encounter excellent lodging along the way. Sometimes it backfired, but we always had fun. And way before that, we could have just ridden our donkey into town, tried every inn along the way and ended up in the stable. That seems like a decent plan. Maybe I'll just take my sleeping bag out to the barn tonight.
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Maybe the old "simpler way" would still work. Remember when we would take of for Colorado or New Orleans or Daytonna, just taking our chances on finding that perfect motel with a great pool (preferably by 4 in the afternoon)
ReplyDeleteYou and your brothers had a great time as I recall.
Dad