Honest Vacation Postcards

Me, now. Send help!

These are all so true! Expect maybe “stomach medicine” instead of headache medicine. LOL. Love all of Grace’s cartoons!

“There have been some peaks and valleys…” needs to be a real postcard. Every time my friend and I have come back from a vacation with teenagers for the last five years, we both always end up starting with “It was a mixed bag…”

Last night of a long anticipated trip to Korea with my husband, our 2 kids, husband’s sister, her husband, their 3 kids and my in laws. These postcards capture it all! Everyone minus (my in-laws and me) is continuing on to Japan for 5 days because we’re so close already. And although I am so grateful we finally got to make this pilgrimage and I will miss my little family while they travel without me, I CANNOT WAIT TO GO HOME and eat silent meals all by myself and sleep in my own bed with our beloved little dog.

How about “Writing this at 8pm from the glow of my phone since we’re in a single room and the kids have to sleep.” Or “Will I ever learn that the free hotel breakfast never has something for my picky eater?” “Bringing home souvenirs – you’ll get to chose your own candy pieces from the floor of our minivan.”

Hahaha! Not on Vacation but away for a work conference. Both flights to get across the country to attend were delayed (arrived at 4 AM instead of 9 PM), bag was lost and still has not been delivered (on day 4 in the same clothes), and I started feeling unwell on the last plane and have come down with COVID so have been isolating in my room since I got here and have not spent 1 minute at this conference I spend a good deal of time and $$ to attend. Puts a lot of things into perspective, especially to be grateful for the small things in life – like clean underwear and your own toothbrush. Will be so glad to be in a set of fresh clothes and well enough to go home!!!