Lamentations

Ahhhhhhhh. We have survived another Birthday Season at our house. I love both of my January boys to pieces, but if anyone asks my opinion, I would not recommend having children with birthdays four days apart, if it can be helped, which sometimes it can't. Having two birthdays two weeks after Christmas wreaks havoc on our budget and our sanity every year. But only because I am an AWESOME mom who goes all out for birthdays. And now, the partying is over for a bit. I can breathe a little sigh of relief. Oh wait, here comes Olivia, back from her extended stay at Hotel Grandma's. So much for relaxing. Oh well, I will have years and years to relax one day.

What we really need is something to look forward to. We need something to get us through the rest of the winter. Not that our every day lives are humdrum or anything. Oh, our day to day existence around here is joyfully fulfilling in every way, no doubt about that. But even sheer bliss gets old after a while. So I am thinking about a vacation.

Disneyland?

Mexico?

Mesquite, even?

Nope. Not in the foreseeable future.


Unfortunately, my spending plan (budget is such an unattractive word) is definitely NOT thinking vacation. My spending plan is screaming at me that if it doesn't catch a break sometime soon, it is going to implode from overwork. Trying to squeeze a vacation out of it right now would be like sucking on sand. Unproductive and gritty and hard to clean out of our teeth.
A vacation would be so not worth it right now.

And anyway, we have other options.

We could just stay home and watch the Travel Channel in our spare time. But we don't have the Travel Channel anymore. Does anybody?

We could go to one of those time share presentations and get a free night's stay somewhere. But really, is it worth the humiliation?

We could spend the weekend in Cedar Fort. That is almost as good as......never mind.

Wait a minute, what am I thinking? We just HAD a vacation. To Pocatello. How could I forget?
We don't need a vacation after all.

What I really need is a fence. If I get a fence before summer is here, I promise I will be happy and stop complaining about the lack of vacations. If I get a fence, and can let my dog out to take a crap in the backyard without having to stand there and babysit her, that will SEEM like a vacation.

So whaddya say, Mr. Spending Plan? Can we squeeze a fence out of you soon? I got some sweat equity I can contribute. I'll do whatever you want. I'll stop eating fast food. What do you say? Do we have a deal?