My family and I are on vacation right now. My family is sound asleep in their beds in a Disney Resort while I peck away at the keys. One of my two youngest should be the first to stir here in a few minutes as our day is about to begin. At the conclusion, this will mark the longest vacation I have ever taken as an adult (6 days).
On day one, we hung around the resort. Day two was the Magic Kingdom and yesterday was Epcot. Today, we mercifully hope to just hang around the resort pool all day because we are just plain worn out. The goal was to "sleep in" today but a fluke 6:30am wake up noise started my day a little earlier than expected. So I decided to write.
It's a trip like this that become memories for a lifetime. The photos we cherish and the stories we will relay to loved ones the rest of our days. I can't tell you how many times my wife and I these last few days have referenced past trips to these spots. And we hope to create special times for each of our kids that they too will be able to relay to their own kids.
No, these memories can't compare to a birth or a baptism or a wedding. Or even an unexpected special moment shared on a trip to school between you and your child. But these are special memories that we will always store under "summer family vacations." For the kids especially, we are just hoping that this trip is stored under the sub-heading of "special" and not "horrible". I don't know about you but I can think of more than a few in my childhood that fell under that latter heading!
Animal Kingdom and maybe a waterpark await us the rest of the week. And maybe tomorrow, I will get another opportunity to "sleep in." If not, I am still having a blast spending time with my family and making memories of a lifetime.
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