We're Going!

WAHOO!!! We found a place to run away to. Someone in my MOMS Club sent me a link to a place they have stayed in a town we've never before been and when we called they had openings and were reasonably enough that we can manage to go for a couple nights. And the really amazingly cool part is my bestest friend Brenda (she moved to California last September which darn near killed me) is going to be in the same beach town next week so we will be able to see each other!!!!!!

How is that for a strange, happy accident? We never even considered going to this specific town but it kept coming up when people were suggesting places we might try. Then when the rate was something we could swing it just seemed like it was meant to be!

Brenda long ago planned this beach vacation with a woman from our old playgroup so their families will be staying in a beach house just blocks from the hotel were we will be. It's just so cool how it all worked out - I'm still stunned but Brenda and I were giggling like school girls today on the phone just thinking of getting to see each other again. Her kids will be there so Kelton will be able to reconnect with his buddy Carson (they've known each other since Kelton was 9 months old). Both boys are bouncing off the walls, too.

Fun fun fun!!!!!!!! I am so excited!!!!

Getting Out of Dodge

That's the thought and desire of the day. Both Dakota and I just want to escape from life for a while. Easier said than done considering it's summertime and hotter than hell here. Everyone is flocking to the coast so the only rooms we can find costs an arm and a leg and well....I know I don't need to, again, mention the lack of savings due to all the chaos in the past few months.

It's not like we need to stay somewhere like swanky Las Vegas Luxury Condos. Just a decent room with some beds. A coffee maker would be nice, too.

Dakota is searching from her work desk and I have spent time searching from here. We may have found something but now there are the details of someone to take care of the animals and figuring out how we can afford to swing it. *sigh*

It shouldn't be this hard. In fact, it seems like a fair trade for the universe to give us at this time. Yeah, I know. Who ever said life was fair. I get that but I also know that the human spirit can only take so much.

Time to breathe, to reconnect, to just be (well - as well as you can do all that with two small children in tow) is all we are asking. Doesn't seem like all that much to me.

And while I'm on the "not fair" bandwagon...I have heard from countless people how when there is a death in the family the casseroles arrive by the truckload. I'm just hear to say that we have had two deaths in as many months and I have yet to see food land on my doorstep (except for those amazing flower cookies that S sent to me!). I'm just saying.....a night when we didn't have to worry about menu planning, cooking and cleaning up would be really nice. It just seems like we both have this huge weight on us and dinners have become this albatross around our necks. So....since it isn't fair that we aren't getting food to comfort us it just seems right that we should have a weekend get-away to feed our souls.

I'm just saying.