Decompression Complete

I'm really content with my 35-year-young life. I mean, being a grown-up definitely has its advantages! I enjoy the "freedoms" I have in my adulthood. I like drinking coffee after 7 PM if I want, then staying up as late as I like. I enjoy driving my car into the city without a map. I appreciate choosing the music I fall asleep to at night. I really love being Mark's wife and momma to Hannah and to Matthew. Some people say they wish they could return to their childhood. I don't wish that, as wonderful as my childhood was. I like where I am.

But I just spent two days at a place where I felt like a kid again, and I have to say... it was pretty sweet.


The four of us went to the Great Wolf Lodge in Grand Mound. It actually exceeded my expectations. Of course, I expected to have fun and relax. But I didn't expect to lose every ounce of tension in my body for hours at a time!! I think I had forgotten what it feels like to have the kind of carefree FUN that I had as a kid. To be silly and laugh really loud and scream if I feel like it, and not care about what anyone is thinking or who is watching me. It felt so good! So freeing!

For the better part of Tuesday, and all of Wednesday, I went from the wave pool to the hot tub- to the water slide to Starbucks to the hot tub- to the wave pool to the water slide- then to the hotel room to the Pizza Hut- to the hotel room to the fudge shop to the hotel room. It was SO. Much. FUN! I could not keep from smiling. I felt NO pressure from school or chores or bills or work. I felt NO burden by any immediate responsibility. It was the most therapeutic getaway I've had in awhile. I even fell asleep in the sun - at two different times- to the sound of falling water.

Today we came home--back to reality. Kind of a bummer, but it was OK. I am immensely thankful that we could even go on this little vacation. I am officially decompressed, just in time for the start of school preparations. I can approach these next two weeks with a new energy I didn't have a few days ago.

Three emphatic cheers for some serious R & R!!