The last vacation...

I had a HUGE post planned for today about my day. Everything that could go wrong, did go wrong... one of THOSE days... I just don't have the energy to relive it again right now. Maybe tomorrow.... stay tuned it was an adventure filled nightmare day! For the moment, I was thinking tonight... when is the last time that hubs and I took a vacation.... a real vacation... alone... more than one night and leaving Savannah... with NO children! Our last vacation with children was at Thanksgiving. We enjoyed 10 hours in the car with a 1 year old that cried the e.n.t.i.r.e. time and refuse to nap in the car. It was May of 2007 that we went somewhere alone, our delayed honeymoon since our original one was scheduled for 6 months after the wedding and I unexpectedly became pregnant and didn't feel comfortable traveling outside of the country being pregnant. We decided to cancel it and move it a year later.  Almost FOUR years have gone bye since our last hiatus... of just US. Is that acceptable? Do we not have time every FOUR years to do something ALONE????  I think once a year that it should be a priority that we do something just as a couple.... and not in Savnnah... and who cares if it is in the summer or the winter?!Maybe Charleston, Jacksonville, Orlando, Myrtle Beach, etc. doesn't have to be far.... but it is a get away for more than one night of 'responsibility'. Mainly since we don't 'live' together. Most couples get to come home to each other every night. It's hard for us to be together because we are so used to living apart since he primarily lives in California and I live in Savannah. Everytime I go to my primary doctor he asks me e.v.e.r.y. time "Why don't you go and live with him and just relocate when the job location changes?" Well doc, I have to think about my kids. I can't have them changing schools every single year, since usually he has a totally different location every year. Why do I live in Savannah? Good Question... Building a house on the 'farm' in Mississippi and letting the kids grow up on tons of land running around with no worry of traffic or strangers, riding 4 wheelers and golf carts, having bonfires and enjoying ponds to fish in, horses to ride, geese to chase, barn cats to play with, and living the country life is looking better and better every day! Only problem is the closest airport is a little over than an hour away for the hubs to fly out of and back in every week. That is the ONLY thing from stopping me from living a life on the 'farm' in the middle of nowhere.So I trudge along... as a 'single' parent. A single parent who can't find time more than once every 5 years to go on vacation with JUST the hubs. I wonder when we will experience something like that again....... I guess it is something that has to be made a 'priority'... unless it is, it will never happen and years and more years will go by!

The first time we ever left Holdyn for a 4 day cruise... for some US time. He was 6 months old... and guess what... he is still alive!! Heck, I would sit in my driveway for 4 days just to have some 'alone' time!