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When a Vacation Really Isn’t a Vacation
By Donna | July 17, 2008
Do you find that sometimes taking a vacation really isn’t worth it? You spend the whole week before getting ready – preparing your house for your time away (this could include a myriad of duties), washing and packing clothes, working extra long days to make sure your/clients’ work is all caught up. Then when you come home you spend the whole week after – cleaning up your house/airing it out (because even though your darling husband didn’t come with you, he’s left you a week’s worth of dishes and take out boxes to clean up), unpacking and washing clothes (not to mention the darling dear has left a week’s worth of laundry strewn all over the house), and then working extra long days to get caught up on everything that you missed while you were away. Oh, wait, I’m forgetting the week’s worth of mail spread out over every visible counter / table top space that you have to go through and sort out the bills, junk mail, catalogs, magazines, etc. because no one else can do it like you do. Oh, and the hundreds of e-mails that have accumulated in your various e-mail accounts because where you were either didn’t have internet or if it did, it was so slow it wasn’t even worth attempting to use it. And let’s not even discuss getting the kiddos back into their routine. “I don’t care that Grandma let you eat your breakfast in the living room. We eat our meals at the kitchen table!”
I know this is not unique to work-at-home parents/families. It seems to me whether you work outside of the home or work-at-home, vacations become “working” vacations, even if it’s just to check in to make sure there are no fires burning, so to speak. Since I’ve entered the world of work-at-home, most of my vacations have been “working”, even a week up in way northern Vermontf or a snowmobile trip, I found my way to a WiFi hotspot and checked in with one of my clients on a daily basis. I just wonder . . . since when did taking a vacation become “work”? Or am I just taking the wrong kind of vacation?
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August 15th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
Your descriptions made me laugh! It’s so true…a mom never gets a real vacation.
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