Five Miles From Home



Ahhhh....

Oh, how

we needed this.

A little R & R

five miles from home.

After spending four straight weekends nursing back to health someone in this house

from

congestion,

fevers,

vomiting,

and even

strep throat-

I couldn't take being in our house for one more weekend.

It is snowing so much this winter,

the boys have said,

"Please don't even ask us to go outside in the snow! We are sick of all this snow!"

I agree-18 degrees is getting old.

So,

Tin Man and I came up with a plan.

We called the closest hotel with a pool and hot tub

and

booked it for this past weekend.

I didn't take the camera,

or the computer,

or even my cell phone-

And we all had the best time ever.

Swimming,

hot tubbing,

eating at the hotel resturant

(where kids ate free-yipee!),

reading,

and relaxing.

We brought board games to play by the pool,

like Star Wars TROUBLE,

 Memory,

and UNO.

I met and talked to another mom by the pool,

and she said,

"Were your kids as disappointed  as mine that there weren't any slides here?

We tried to go to a water park, but they were booked, so here we are-ugh..."

I had to tell her the truth-

My boys told me this was "...the best vacation ever!-A close second to Disney World!"

Just getting out of our (chock-full-of sickness!) house for a weekend felt heavenly.

And it was.

We had so much fun just five miles from home...

(...who spent winter break at the local Holiday Inn and loved it-)