Daydreaming about Christmas in Cardiff...
Typist: Bethany
The holidays are a bit like traveling. Everything inevitably costs more than planned but the stress is always worth the amazing memories made. Another way that the holidays are like traveling is that the indulgence can become addictive. I don't mean luxuries like staying in five star hotels or buying everyone on the Christmas list a diamond ring. The addictive nature of traveling is that each time I go out on the road I want more! More scenery. More miles. More time. When I get hooked on the fun of the holidays, I want more lights, more parties and more pet-friendly adventures. But with travel and the holidays, eventually time and money run out. But what if it didn't? What if I had just a little extra? What would I do?
The holidays are a bit like traveling. Everything inevitably costs more than planned but the stress is always worth the amazing memories made. Another way that the holidays are like traveling is that the indulgence can become addictive. I don't mean luxuries like staying in five star hotels or buying everyone on the Christmas list a diamond ring. The addictive nature of traveling is that each time I go out on the road I want more! More scenery. More miles. More time. When I get hooked on the fun of the holidays, I want more lights, more parties and more pet-friendly adventures. But with travel and the holidays, eventually time and money run out. But what if it didn't? What if I had just a little extra? What would I do?
| The answer for me, of course, is easy: gas money and an extra day or two or more on the road with my pets. My wanderlust is so predicable. It was more fun to wonder what Wilhelm, Brychwyn, Huxley, Amelia and Leo would do if they had some extra time and money. I guessed that Wilhelm and Huxley would want a yard full of agility equipment and twenty hours a day to run through it. It is likely that Brychwyn would choose a dream vacation to Wales. That country has everything he loves: beaches, mountains and no other corgis. Amelia was too grouchy to help me surf the internet for more fantasy cat shopping after she and I discovered that no one ships live mice.* With some help typing from Leo, he enjoyed perusing websites with Learjet sales. I take no responsibility for that cockatoos expensive taste. |  Frozen mice? Where's the fun in that? |
Leo looking for a Learjet sale that takes PayPal...
Running over on the holiday budget isn't usually due to the expensive tastes of a cockatoo or any one family member. The same goes for those extra, unexpected travel expenses. Even with $200 extra holiday dollars, Leo will not find a Learjet under the tree, Amelia will not have a stocking full of live mice, Brychwyn will not leave on a ship for Wales and Wilhelm and Huxley will not wake on Christmas morning to a full agility course in our tiny city yard. Two hundred dollars is also not enough for us to become full time nomads in 2015. However, the memories we make spending time together over the holidays and beyond, even if we wish we had more, cannot be measured in agility, travels, mice or Learjets.
There's not enough Christmas money for THIS? Why?
*Hooray for ethical rodent sales! Not shipping live mice is a good thing both for the adorable rodents and for our home (but don't tell Amelia I said that.)
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