Decided perspectives

This is it. Final day. Once again, I can't believe it went so fast.

Yesterday we rented a boat to go out on the lake. It is our favorite event during the week. We look forward to it every year. The girls get most excited about the inner tube we pull behind.

As we rented the boat for five hours, we brought snacks and music with us. It was the perfect day.

The lake isn't huge, but it is big enough that it takes some time to go around. We decided to go to our favorite outlet. It is toward the end of the lake and it is big enough to park the boat and swim.

This is where our idea doesn't mesh with the ideas of the girls.

As we pulled over, we all jumped in and played for a bit, and then Julie and I decided we would sunbathe for a few, listen to music and just relax.

Apparently, this was unacceptable to the kids. Avery wanted us to get the boat moving, because she and Aspen wanted to ride and have fun. But fun for me was hanging out and relaxing in the beautiful sunshine.

We told the girls to just chill and hang out for a while, but then the words came out of Avery's mouth......."You guys are wasting our vacation time!!!"

We burst out laughing! To her, this was true. We couldn't deny her truth. But our truth was that is it was our vacation too and we wanted to relax for a bit.

So, what is one to do?

I say the pocketbook speaks louder, so we chilled for a bit. Only not as long as we would have liked.

It is funny seeing things from a kids perspective as well as the adults perspective.

While we were in the boat with the tube behind and the girls in tow, we had to yield to certain safety issues. If a skier was in the water with a flag in the air, we had to slow to 5mph. This was unacceptable to the girls on the tube. Inevitably we would hear them screaming "GO FASTER!!!". they had no idea why we slowed, nor did they care. They just wanted what they wanted.

It made me very aware of our differing lots in life. Theirs is to merely have fun, with no thoughts of safety or yielding - where ours comes from a place of "safety first".

It was fun to see things from their perspective or shall we say myopathy. I am reminded that I was there once too, and that as we grow, so does our sense of mortality and caution. Kids are completely oblivious to this, which in many ways is great. As adults we should be reminded to let go once in a while and be in the moment. Kids do this. "We" used to.

When we first got here, we had a problem with the TV. It wasn't coming on at all. And though we are not here to watch TV, there will be down times when tv is nice. But the question is.....if it didn't get fixed, should we ask to be moved to a place with a tv? Or make the best of it and just deal?

It did come very close to that question, and I tell you, the house would have been divided as much as the democrats and the republicans. Thankfully, the issue was fixed and it became a 'non-issue' (if you will).

If it were up to me, I would have liked to see how we spent our time with no electronics. People get pretty creative when they 'don't have'.

But that said.....I am sitting here writing my blog. So enough about that......

Happy Friday!