Are We Having Fun Yet?

We leave on vacation Friday,
We’ll be gone for a week.
I’m flippin exhausted already!

Remember when you were a kid and went on vacation?
One day you were playing in the backyard with the neighbor kids,
The next you were 1000 miles away on a beach somewhere.
A week later…you’re back playing with the neighbor kids oblivious to the amount of work it took (someone) for you to have all that fun.

How DID that magic happen?
WHO made that magic happen?

I know, I know…
Mom did!!!

She figured out where we were going and when.
How we were getting there and more importantly how we were going to pay for it.
She also had the 4-1-1 on what there was to do and see on our vacation destination.

Mom would pack us.
Stop the mail and newspaper.
Board the dogs.
Get the neighbor kid to mow the grass and his mom to water the flowers.

The contents of the fridge were rationed out with great precision a few days prior to leaving.
The house was cleaned and the laundry done.
Upon our return…
She was the one who transitioned us back into everyday life.

No wonder Mom always had a supply of crisp 5 dollar bills for the plane trip!
“Red wine” I can still hear her say to the stewardess when she came by with the beverage cart..
Only then, with that first well deserved sip did her vacation actually begin.

Well I’m the Mom now…
And I’ve got three more days till then.
Someone, quick…lock up the booze!

And just so I’m clear here…
God help the first kid who says “I’m bored”!!!
God help them!!!