World's Longest Headache

It’s official. My husband is leaving me for another state. There goes all my project ideas. He’s going to Texas to work for a few months to make some extra money. For some reason he thinks we could use it to pay for this new house that we built and can’t afford. I wouldn’t be very excited about the whole idea except that I want to go out with the kids and stay with him for a month to see what we can see. We never travel so it’s a good excuse to go somewhere practically for free. The RR will pay for us to drive out there, we have a free hotel room and we just pay for food and activities.

This goes right along with my new idea for home-schooling. Stranger gets four weeks of paid vacation every year. I think we should start using them to travel instead of wasting them on Thanksgiving, Christmas and silly little holidays like that. I figure while the kids are young we’ll go somewhere “local” every year. We’ll rent a house on the Oregon coast for a month one year, we’ll live on a sailboat in Mexico another year. When the kids are teenagers we can travel overseas; Italy one year, Greece the next. We can spend the year learning and researching before we go.

I just don’t think a couple days here and a week there is the way to experience a different culture. A month doesn’t do it either but it’s a start. With a month I wouldn’t feel like I had to see every thing all at once. We could really slow down and enjoy ourselves.

Stranger is thinking Hawaii for next year. He went every year as a child and he really wants to take the kids. It would be fun to go to Alaska while Grandma and Grandpa are there but they’re working so hard on their mission, we would just be a distraction.

Stranger loves to travel but I don’t. You know, the whole home-body thing. I would do it for my kids though. They have had so much fun when we have been forced to travel in the past and they are so appreciative. I really can’t wait to take them to Texas. Especially the 27 hour drive. It’s going to be so much fun driving it all by myself with two kids trying to kill each other in the back seats and one baby blowing my eardrums out with her impatient screams. Maybe if there were garages sales all along the way… One year I think we should leave Stranger home and the kids and I do the world’s longest yard sale.