just do it

No I'm not advocating for Nike. I don't think I've ever even owned anything Nike made anyway. Just getting to my point. I have been stressing over this Florida Disney trip we are going on in a few days since it was first set, back in like Nov. when my hubby set the plans with the timeshare people. As if adding on to our house at the end of last year wasn't enough of an expense why shouldn't we go broke taking the kids to Disney just cause Jake is three and that's when we took Emily. I've long thought we should have waited until next year and money wasn't so tight.

Well, who the hell am I kidding money is always going to be tight. My husband and I are spenders not savers. We do what we want when we want. Why to you think we have this timeshare in Florida. Surprise trip Nov. '07 led to surprise purchase of said timeshare. But we love it and no way will we ever regret it. It's a given vacation every year. We know we're getting away no matter what. We are going cause we've been paying for it all year. {Sort of like a car payment.} But what more peace of mind is there than knowing you'll be getting away at a certain time. It's something to look forward to. always.

Sure, we do plenty of other stuff. Robs sister is getting married in August. She lives in Pennsylvania, a short ways away from Hershey park. Well we've never taken the kids there so we're hoping to take a side trip after the wedding for an extra day there. After Disney who knows if we can but we want to and will try our best to. We like to go places and do things and you can't take it with you so why not?

I know it's not always easy to get to do what you want thats why you really have to plan it. And do it for yourself. I've come to make sure I do something different that I have always wanted to do for my birthday. And of course make my husband do ti with me. I think he may have started it when for our anniversary one year he planned an overnight trip to Montauk for just the two of us. I knew nothing about it but my boss did as he showed up to work on day at lunchtime to take me away. He had planned it all and even pack my bag so I didn't have to do a damn thing. It was absolutely wonderful. We stayed across the road from the beach, went to a big breakfast buffet, my favorite meal. And then went out to the lighthouse something I had always wanted to do.

The next year for my birthday we took Emily and Jacob and went out to the Orient point lighthouse and stayed out there for a good part of the day. Again something I had never done. This year we went into the city. We walked across the Brooklyn Bridge, walked around Central Park and the New York Public Library. From now on my birthday is free reign for doing something I've always wanted to. We all get one day a year thats special to us we might as well make the most of it.

I had intended to eventually write about this here because it's something I feel strongly about. We are only here once you may only get this chance once so why not take it. I think I had gotten away from some of that thinking recently with the stress of life getting to me. We still don't even have the CO for my upstairs because the town needs a ridiculous amount of paper work and plans we didn't know we needed to have done. Of course getting that done means more $. And right now our money is going to be heading down to Disneyworld. And being its Jakes first trip it's about time I start living in that fact and not that we could have had all the house stuff done if it weren't for the trip. What the hell should I care if the town says it's ok to live in my house the way it is yet or not. We're not moving out of it, we're living in it and have our space no matter what. And we're taking the kids to Disney. As far as I'm concerned and in light of the passing of the third person from my high school class this year (we're only 34) I think everyone should be planning a trip. To Disney or anywhere you've wanted to go and never been. Anywhere your kids want to go. For an overnight , a week, a month. Whatever you can do now. They won't care how much money you left them, Ok maybe the will. But they'll have much better memories of you should they lose you too soon. Or as sick as it sounds vice versa, because you just never know!