Back to the Grind!

You know, it doesn't matter how we try to escape our lives sometimes, we always have to come back to ourselves!


Have you ever noticed that?  You may go away on holiday, forget all your worries and cares, it doesn't matter how much time has passed, inevitably, you always have to return.

It's great to escape the hum drum of life, go away on a holiday somewhere, and rest and relax, but life has a routine for us, a pattern to follow.  Even if you take the day off at home, there is still the basic running of the house, feed the animals, wash some clothes, cook a meal.  There is no escaping it!  There will always be things you need to do, just to keep the house ticking over.....and if you have kids?......need I say more?


After having just spent 4 wonderful days in an exotic location with my DH (dear Husband), I feel like I have had a wonderful rest, a time of wining and dining, movies, shopping, swimming, and sight seeing...it was wonderful.  Things like that are the glue of marriage sometimes.  I remember from our first year of marriage, someone older and wiser gave us the advice to have a date night once a week, even though the kids were small....we have always done that!

Over the years it has progressed to holidaying without the kids at least once a year!  Of course we go on family holidays together, but having that time alone can really keep you connected after 20 years of marriage!  It is the glue that keeps you together.  


There are stella moments on holiday, no holiday is perfect.  But you are still having your stella moments away from home, so it still counts as a holiday!


Its the returning that's the problem.  Yes, there is a returning!  You have to come back to your life and face your music....mine?   4 kids, 2 dogs, 1 cat, 1 fish and a mountain of washing.....STELLA!