February 21, 2013

Heading home in the car from Lenox, MA after 3 days of a "vacation" with my sister and her family. Relaxed except for my 11 year old with her head on my shoulder, asleep, sick. We met in Springfield at the Basketball Hall of Fame on Tuesday. We had lunch at Plan B Burger restaurant. We laughed and talked and ate. We went to the museum for the rest of the visit. Lots to do and see. The kids really liked it I think. Onto Lenox and the Yankee Inn. We checked in, did some exploring, swimming and ate pizza together for dinner. We stayed up playing Catch Phrase with the kids and had some beverages. Next morning the big boys went skiing and after breakfast we went to the Berkshire Museum. It was a great place with a little something for everyone in the crowd, dinosaurs, Greek statues. Indian jewelry, boxes and tape and the aquarium. A brief exit for lunch at the Highland Diner in Pittsfield and we went back to the museum for more exploring, complete with turtles doing shenanigans and a bully turtle trying to escape his blue bucket, using his muscles again and again, perseverance embodied in a turtle. I know how you feel turtle but how do you keep trying? The Eagles "we may lose and we may win, but we will never be here again...." Live each day and don't get ahead of yourself or stay behind mulling over decisions and choices. Message for our kids. Last night we all went out to dinner together, to The Dakota. We had a nice time, everyone together. Afterwards we hung out and called it a night , to wake up and say goodbye to the Casavants. My Riley, not feeling very well and come to find out, having a stomach bug. Here we are, traveling home. A deep breath again to move on with this day, and the next one, one at a time.