Looking back on our summer my mind fills with disappointments and sadness. The reality that has hit my family is that we are running this rat race a little too fast for our own good. Our to-do list is long enough for 3 life times and with our crazy wacked out schedule as a "Fire Family" it only makes matters worse. True, JT has the ability to work his schedule to better fit family vacations and such, problem is we cant seem to put family first. To prioritize our life so that we are spending a good amount of quality time as a family. We are both at fault here. He had a whole six day off a few weeks ago and if he was not at the gym, eating, or sleeping, then he and I were busy trying to knock down that to-do list I previously mentioned. When in fact we should be saying these things can wait, our kids will only be kids for so long... lets go play!
At the beginning of the summer I blogged about all the wonderful things we had planned to do! Alisa even helped me make the list. Not only did we miss manage our time, we miss managed our finances, and now looking back we are paying the price, suffering the consequences of our actions. I can say we did do some of the things we had planned to do but none of the big ones, and now here we are ready for school to start back up with very few good summer memories to get us through until winter break. We had a very serious talk about it all and we are both on the same page that things do need to change. Given there are some great things that we would like to stay the same but we really want our girls to grow up with an appreciation and love for a lot of the same things as us and that just wont happen if we do not take them out to experience it all now. So I am bummed but I do have hope. We are lucky to be realizing this now while they ARE still young and not 10 years from now! We have been blessed so that in turn we can bless our kids and we flat out haven't done that. Our plan is to take a family vacation before the end of August if all goes well and we put this priority first I will be posting pictures and telling you about our adventure :) wish us luck!
LT
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