Our so and his fiancée were here for two weeks. It was nice having them here. Nice is such a benign overused word. It was so much more than nice to have them here. It was amazing!
It has been three years since we saw them last. Way to much time gone by before seeing our kids. How many of us stop to smell the roses? How many of us take work home with us? Not very many of us leave work completely behind us when we get in the car to go home. If we had a bad day, or battled traffic, or didn't finish a task we had planned to have done that day.
If we had a bad day or a good day, we bring it home and talk about it with our spouse. If we don't talk about it, then we are crabby, and irritable and just want to veg and watch tv. I personally think we are doing it wrong. Work is something we go to for 8 to 10 hours, and if there is a challenge at work, sort it out and if you can't, then write it down and deal with it the next day. Leave it at work, take the ride home to relax and refocus your mind. You are on your way to the safest place on earth, your home, your sanctuary, your haven. The place where you love and are loved, where your family is, where you can embrace peace and comfort. Instead, we allow work to invade our safe, loving, haven.
Okay, back to my son and our future daughter-in-law. We had so much fun with them. We went tubing, we went up Mount Washington and fed the Whiskey Jacks. We went camping at Sproat Lake and we went to Tofino, and they went zip lining, and they went to Tree Go, and we went camping in Strathcona Park, saw Lady Falls, Lupin Falls, and finally Myra Falls. We stopped and smelled the flowers. We stopped and played again, had fun, laughed, and relaxed.
Ray and I, well, Ray has been so busy working and fixing the house, and I have been emotionally, and as much physically as I can, supporting him. We had not stopped to play or relax for a while. Then our son came, and we played hard, but it was good! It was physically demanding, and we were tired at night, and we fell asleep with a smile on our faces.
I guess my point in all of this is to remind us all to stop. Leave work at the office, on the job site, or where ever your work is, leave it there. Relax on your way home so you can walk through the door with a smile on your face happy to see your family at home. Then, go play! Release the tension of the day by laughing with your wife/husband/kids. Go do something you all love. Go to sleep with a smile on your face. Keep life exciting and filled with love and laughter.
Take care
Love ya
Me
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