Vacation Stress and New Perspectives
It's vacation time! So many of us plan for it and hold it up like a trophy reward for making it through the daily mundane days in life: washing clothes, making egg salad sandwich or watching one more reality TV show. But really, does it refresh you? Do you long for more time when you are away? Do you regret the time when you realize you spent more than planned? Do you quickly forget what it felt like when you re-enter your home? In my family, I have a quirky problem...my children do not want to be photographed. They dunk, hide, turn or firmly shut their eyes. Facebook and other computer photo pages have them horrified of getting a bad picture taken and plastered for everyone in the world to see. I so long to have pictures to see, OK yes, I am getting older... I need pictures to remember. And then I wonder, is everyone else like me? Do people need to see pictures to recall the memories or can they pull up images in their head? The images I see in my head are all kinda w