Vacation Plans and Summer Activities

 I am super pumped about the activities and family vacations we have coming up this year. The kid's last day of school for this school year is next week. We have so much planned. We are going to an indoor waterpark, drive-thru safari and giraffe & elephant feeding experience, a trip to the zoo where we will have a dolphin encounter, 2 air shows. One close by and one out of town where we have to stay overnight in a hotel. We also have our summer family trip. I can't wait for that one. We are going to Gatlinburg, TN. There we will be going white river rafting, the wax museum, titanic exhibit, sky bridge, go-karting, and a hike. Then we gonna drive to D.C. and go to the National African American History Museum and Lincoln Monument. The next day we will drive to Hershey, PA and got to Hershey World and Hershey Park. It's gonna be awesome. 

The next month we will be gearing up for the kids to start their new year of school. After school starts we will be going to the state fair and a few weeks later a Cirque du Soiel show. That would be the last thing going on besides occasional trips to the roller skating rink on the weekends until our Fall family vacation. That vacation we will spend a week at Disney. 4 days at 4 different parks and the 5th day we are spending at Discovery Cove. That one day at Discovery Cove is gonna cost more than the whole Disney part of the vacation so I have to work extra hours before hand to make it happen. We gonna go all out at Discovery Cove. All 5 of us will be doing the dolphin swim and ultimate animal experience. A once in a lifetime experience. I can't wait. 

I told the kids that all me and their father ask in return is that they do what they are told in regard to chores and school work. That's their only job. I love my family and I love spending time with them. We all don't get to spend as much time together as we used to since my husband and I started the business. The kids were used to having their dad home every night since they were born. Starting this business was an adjustment for all of us. Now we are lucky if I can route his loads to bring him home on the weekends. We legit video chat or stay on the phone with each other 24/7 when he is gone. It's the only way we can deal with it. We are super close. When he went out over the road for the first time when we first started this business I cried because it was the first time in like 10 years I went over 2 days without being with him and sleeping next to him. I have since gotten used to it in the sense that I emotionally and mentally prepare myself for him to leave us each time. I have to encourage him to go because he never wants to leave me. I would love to be with him 24/7 but the business won't allow that. It's the life we chose I guess. My husband always dreamed of starting his own trucking business. He supported me so much when I decided to become a nurse. He was damn near my only cheerleader (besides the kids.. After I was working as a nurse for a while he decided that he wanted to start this business so that's what we did. I wanted him to accomplish is dream. My career took a backseat for him to do this because I had to make sure the kids were tended to at all times and I do all the dispatching and book keeping for the business. Running a business is hard work and we are legit learning as we go but I am super happy to make him happy. I'm gonna start working again every now and then to make extra money for vacations but the business takes care of all of our personal and business expenses. It's a good trade off. Vacations and activities is so important because it's the only time we are together to build memories with the kids. I don't want them to look back at their childhood and say that their parents were ever home and that we never did anything together. I want to create memories and I want us to all be super close....unlike the relationship my husband and I had with the families we grew up in.