I hadn’t really planned it that way and it certainly hadn’t been a consideration when we made our bookings for a week out of town with just my son, his wife, the toddler and the baby, but in retrospect that is what it was.
Life was reduced to the basics: grocery shopping on a large scale once the day after we arrived and once on a small scale for essentials to finish the week. The days were “occupied” with holding the baby, playing with the toddler, talking and laughing together, making meals and precious little else.
There is a moratorium on screens for the toddler so even the adults, by the time all were settled for the night, or in the case of the baby, for a few hours, we were too tired to want to even turn on the TV, who’s remote controls ended up on a beam within an hour of our arrival: toddler has a thing for buttons, for screws, for drawers, for finding whatever it is that you might not want him to find.
We had plenty of windows, thus light even on the rainy days, we made small trips to neighboring attractions, we had a view of mountains and a lake in a corner: in short it was a wonderful, unplanned, disconnecting from our normal lives.
I for one could have happily continued, but “real” life would have intruded sooner or later as bills need to be paid, tasks accomplished, friends seen. However, I highly recommend that everyone push the stop button occasionally: it will do your souls, not to mention your health a real treat.
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