Posted by Dinah on July 23, 2005, at 5:13:21 [reposted on July 24, 2005, at 9:56:14 | original URL]
In reply to Re: Dinah » Dinah, posted by Sarah T. on July 23, 2005, at 1:41:23
I do believe it will be a serial theme park vacation. :)
Sometimes I think we indulge the boy too much. I never went to anything but the smallest tourist amusement parks as a child, and that only rarely.
My parents enjoyed seeing the wonders of nature sort of thing (not camping though). So we spent our vacations on mountaintops and in valleys and on beaches, looking at waterfalls or breathtaking vistas or the beauty of the sea.
But my husband and I are reluctant to withstand the moaning and complaining that I did as a child, and that my son is not unlikely to do. Or his playing his gameboy while we ooh and ahhh.
On the other hand, I have told my husband that this is our last family vacation. This one has already been payed for and must proceed, I suppose. But my husband has been well nigh unbearable since even before the plans were finalized. He was trying to explain to me all the anxieties he has about various aspects of the vacation, and those we leave behind (in particular his elderly family). But I tend to think of those as poor excuses for unpleasant behavior. Especially since it was he who insisted we hadn't been on a proper vacation for years and that it wasn't fair to our son, and how dare I suggest we postpone it because of our obligations here, and so forth.
Quite frankly, at this point, I detest the very idea of a vacation because of the experience I have already had with it before even leaving. I wish we weren't going, and I never want to step foot out of the blasted house again with a man who thinks nothing of taking his anxieties out on his family in the name of taking care of them.
(Somewhat akin to his behavior when he thinks he's let us down. He becomes absolutely unpleasant to live with. I always ask him if "Darn it. I let you down and I'm going to make everyone's life miserable while I berate myself for it." is a logical response.)
I'm sorry Sarah. I know a rant is not what you expected. But I'm rather anti-family vacation at the moment.
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