I’m a Ramblin’ (Wo)Man…
Posted by Stephanie on June 17, 2009
Well, we have gotten to the point that we are counting hours until vacation time. Meaning, the son, has been counting down hours for the past 7 days…
“It’s only 168 hours, 167 hours 166 hours until we leave, right mom?”
whoo-whee, I need this vacation. we skipped a vacation last year because with gas at $4.69 a gallon, driving to work was a vacation!
so, summer is here (well technically, in 4 days) and I am mindful that summer is both a blessing and the bane of my existence.
The kids have a pool, DVD players, XBox, computers, Playstations, PSP and Nintendo DS’s. Did I mention they HAVE A POOL?
They have basketball, skateboards, bicycles, games, books, legos and a park ACROSS THE STREET…
and they are bored….
well, the son is…the daughter is a party animal and doesn’t come home except to sleep and shower. Not really, kinda….she works all day, then it’s play time. So I have seen her a total of about 40 minutes since graduation.
This vacation will trap her in a car with me for 8 hours. And then in a condo for 6 days….except when we are on the beach.
Now, we all know how the daughter and I are like gasoline and a match in the car…but we have two others riding with us that are a buffer. And Whirly has gotten me some Tylenol PM, so I will knock myself out and sleep most of the way…I hope. It would be a real pisser to start a vacation fighting for control of the radio.
This is the first vacation in THIRTY years that my sister, my mom and I have all been on together. Last time was S. Padre Island when I was nine. We had a blast. Well, the sister and I did….chasing sand crabs across our mommy’s feet! She didn’t seem to appreciate this as much as we did.
We’ve decided to pack up the daughter, the son, the daughter’s bestie (and my favorite friend), the mother, the sister, the niece and one of my besties Tanner…
this should make for a glorious trip. We will either all love each other or hate each other by the time we get back.
I sure hope it doesn’t turn into some weird episode of Survivor and we start voting people off. Because there’s only three cars and someone is gonna get left behind.
Wish me luck.
