Home at Last
The holiday has given me one good thing...an opportunity to go home. I left work yesterday afternoon and headed straight for Illinois. I was not willing to wait until the following morning to leave.
After driving for 14 straight hours, I arrived home at 5:30 this morning. There is good and bad in this. I arrived two and a half hours before Avery woke up. Even though I was dead tired, Avery was begging for breakfast and hugging all over me. It doesn't get much better than that.
We ate. We read a couple books. We talked. It was the me and Avery time I missed so much.
Two older kids wandered their way downstairs where we talked and caught up a little.
The Queen needed to take Avery to pick up an item for / from her mother and asked if I wanted to join them. Hmmm... sleep for a short time (an hours or two) or run around a store looking for a snowglobe.
Feeling my eyelids closing as we discussed it, I figured a couple hours was no big deal and I wouldn't miss out on the entire day with only the loss of a couple hours.
This brings me to my point (as I almost always have one). When you hit forty, is there really any such thing as a short nap?
After being awaken at 5:00, and basically sleeping the entire day away, I am really not feeling any more awake than I did this morning. Is it a comfort factor?
I know when I used to stay at Ocean City, Maryland on the weekends, I would always feel as if I needed a nap. Granted, there are plenty of other things to do in Ocean City than to nap, but for some reason, my body had this urge to sit on the sun porch and just close my eyes.
I could be worried about everything from where the next job was coming from, or how we are dwindling the world supply of toilet paper to how mapping the genome project will help and hurt the world as a whole. But as soon as I arrived at the beach, it was hearing the ocean waves hitting the shoreline and smelling the salt air.
I felt so at peace there. I feel at peace here with my family.
Did you know...
The Moon's gravity pulls on Earth's oceans. High tide aligns with the Moon as Earth spins underneath. Another high tide occurs on the opposite side of the planet because gravity pulls Earth toward the Moon more than it pulls the water.
After driving for 14 straight hours, I arrived home at 5:30 this morning. There is good and bad in this. I arrived two and a half hours before Avery woke up. Even though I was dead tired, Avery was begging for breakfast and hugging all over me. It doesn't get much better than that.
We ate. We read a couple books. We talked. It was the me and Avery time I missed so much.
Two older kids wandered their way downstairs where we talked and caught up a little.
The Queen needed to take Avery to pick up an item for / from her mother and asked if I wanted to join them. Hmmm... sleep for a short time (an hours or two) or run around a store looking for a snowglobe.
Feeling my eyelids closing as we discussed it, I figured a couple hours was no big deal and I wouldn't miss out on the entire day with only the loss of a couple hours.
This brings me to my point (as I almost always have one). When you hit forty, is there really any such thing as a short nap?
After being awaken at 5:00, and basically sleeping the entire day away, I am really not feeling any more awake than I did this morning. Is it a comfort factor?
I know when I used to stay at Ocean City, Maryland on the weekends, I would always feel as if I needed a nap. Granted, there are plenty of other things to do in Ocean City than to nap, but for some reason, my body had this urge to sit on the sun porch and just close my eyes.
I could be worried about everything from where the next job was coming from, or how we are dwindling the world supply of toilet paper to how mapping the genome project will help and hurt the world as a whole. But as soon as I arrived at the beach, it was hearing the ocean waves hitting the shoreline and smelling the salt air.
I felt so at peace there. I feel at peace here with my family.
Did you know...
The Moon's gravity pulls on Earth's oceans. High tide aligns with the Moon as Earth spins underneath. Another high tide occurs on the opposite side of the planet because gravity pulls Earth toward the Moon more than it pulls the water.
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