Vacation Preparation

My entire day has been absorbed by preparations for the Seattle trip. I decided to focus on house cleaning today and packing tomorrow. Of course some of each will leak into the other day, but that is to be expected. Because we’ve had stomach flu in our house this past week, I felt inspired to pull out our Big Green Clean Machine and sanitize some areas of carpet. I want to come home and have my house smell clean. Now there are clean spots in the kids’ rooms. Maybe when I get back I’ll feel inspired to do the rest of the carpet.

I also cleaned out the car. We’re going to be spending the equivalent of two days in that vehicle. It is going to be totally trashed before the end, but I figure it doesn’t have to start that way. Maybe when I get back I’ll clean the van carpets too. They certainly need it.

I’ve worked hard all day long, but there is still so much work left to do. I didn’t make the kids do very much work today because they’re all either sick or recovering. Poor Link has been lying on the couch all day. Hopefully he’ll be better by tomorrow and all well by Monday. Howard is sick today too. Ditto on the hopefully all better by Monday. I really think that they will be. This has been a 48 hour bug for all the other kids.

I’m really going to enjoy this trip. I can leave behind all the business chores. I can leave behind all the house chores. I even finished a draft so I can leave behind all the writing chores. The only thing I’ll have to do is be with my kids, visit with friends, and run the vacation. It will still be work, but it will be different from my regular life. That’s the point of vacation, to do something different.