Feet In The Sand...Head In The Clouds...A Vacation Is A Gift in Today's Market
I have never been a very big vacation doer. Don't get me wrong I have done plenty of one and two week stints of traveling but by the 2nd week I am ready to go home. Home to my bed, my couch, my food, my slop around clothes and my front porch sipping coffee in the early morning air. Yep, long weekend get aways are more my cup of tea.
But this year I changed my stance and my mindset. With today's real estate market pulling at my heart strings like no other market has, worrying about listings that are not selling, Buyers that are not buying, appraisals that are falling short, transactions falling apart because rules of money changed before closing and failing family members who are showing me that my age is creeping up all too quickly I decided that a full week of somewhere else but home was the best thing for me and for my sanity.
Funny how after all these years of thinking 4 day weekends that I am so looking forward to a full week away. A week to re-energize, re-focus and re-group. A week to attach my head and brain back squarely on my neck so that I can get those listings sold, those Buyers off the fence and those sales up. A week to re-think my sisters health care. A week to love me and those around me a little more intensely. A week to laugh a little harder, deeper and louder. A week to put my feet in the sand and my head in the clouds.
Yep, in today's market a vacation is a gift. It is a gift to ourselves. Ok, so I will not be spending as much money as I have in the past. That's ok. Long walks in the early morning sunlight, shell finding beach strolls, tubing down a Lazy River, a good summer novel under the beach umbrella. These free gifts to me are worth they're weight in gold and sanity.
So tomorrow we leave for a week away. A week with my oldest daughter, her hubby, my 2 grandchildren and 2 great ones too. A week spent with my feet in the sand and my head in the clouds.
Ahhh, I already feel sanity returning.
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