Today my husband took some FTO (basically, a holiday day). We were quite busy with appointments for our youngest all day, but we had time to relax and reconnect. Seems kind of sad that he has to take a day off for us to spend some time together. That said, I will take a random day of FTO over weeks of him traveling. :)
I wonder if we can just run away, plant a coconut tree and live on Rarotonga in the Cook Islands - maybe Pa's Nature Walks could use an assistant? That is really my ideal. I want to escape this thing called life and just be happy. It would not take much to be honest. I am sick of this rat race called modern life. I want to turn in my phone. I want to just be content with my family and hanging out with my friends. Is that even possible?
I remember being in university and talking about building a Utopian village. Obviously, the things I found important back then are no longer important to me - well maybe some things are. But the addition of my husband and my children really skewed what I once thought of as a perfect day. Though I still would put up a long nap and lazing around in that ideal. Isn't funny how the importance of things change as we age? If I could go back and tell my crunchy, granola university self where I would be 20 years later, I would never have believed you. I guess that is the genius of life. No one can ever predict what is going to truly happen.
So, though we were busy, saw the silver lining all day long. Now back to reality...though I am dreading it.
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