My family and I are on vacation at my parents’ house in the Blue Ridge Mountains. And it. is. fantastic! See?
This has been a weird summer with me working from home, squeezing in 30 hours of work with just 14 hours of childcare, and still taking the kids to all their camps, summer school, VBS, speech therapy, and other activities that they want to do. I get up at 5:45 so I can get work done before they wander downstairs. I tell them they can’t get out of bed until 8, since they all still don’t know how to sleep in (although that’s not quite fair, Joshua WOULD if Jonah would let him, but alas, they share a room.)
So, basically, I have never needed a vacation SO BAD in my LIFE. And I am super-thankful for this week with my fam to REST and chillax.
I love my job, and I love my family, but I can’t wait to get back to the school schedule so that I feel like LESS of a CRAZY PERSON!
26 more days for the big kids, but I am still not sure how many days ’til Jonah goes back, because it’s always different for the preschool than it is for the elementary. But for this mama, it can’t be soon enough! I am ready for me work-life balance to go from non-existent to at least kind of existent.
In the meantime, I am soaking up this week with my beautiful family in this beautiful place!
We live near the Blue Ridge Mountains, and my 4 yr old said last week, “When can we go to those mountains?” So I remembered your post from quite a while back about the places you like to visit on the Parkway, and lo and behold, those places are like 30 -45 minutes from my house! We did Otter Creek and Indian Rocks like you recommended and the kids had a blast. And we got lots of good photos. Also we went to Crabtree falls which is not on the Parkway, but is nearby. It was beautiful and a decent hike with young kids. You can decide how high you are going to go up, and turn around when you think you have had enough. There are many different levels to the falls; you can see different stages the higher you go. I recommend it. It’s free.
That makes me happy! I can’t wait to try Crabtree Falls!
We loved having you! We have done Crabtree Falls and we will do it with your family,too. It is near the fish hatchery. That is where Andy’s family saw the rattlesnake and your dad realized that everyone else could hear it rattle but him.