Freeeeeeedom!!!!!!

in #powerhousecreatives5 years ago (edited)

So… Wednesday next week we will be packing our bags and heading off to a place called “Doringlaagte” in Montagu to camp for four days. @theycallmedan - PLEASE don’t launch any dpolls hahaha!!! The last “getaway” I tried to have at Kagga Kamma was ambushed by SEVERE stress levels haha!! (ok, yes… it was WELL worth it in the end, but I spent the entire time perched at one windowsill that offered even one bar of signal lol.) Anyhooo, so yes – all I can say is I cannot wait! Jude will be on holiday for about 11 days which means we still get a bit of a break when we get back. Believe it or not, this will actually be Jude’s first official camp trip… excluding his school camp outs and his very first one, when he was in my belly. Lol!! Such is life I guess… time often runs away from us – ESPECIALLY as mothers! Time for relaxation is somewhat of a foreign concept to moms.

“A mother’s work is never done” they say… and “THEY” are so VERY right! Lol! I know that absolutely every single mother out there can relate to this. It does not matter HOW well we plan things in advance or attempt to structure our agenda’s in order to be afforded just a few extra minutes of “down time” – the reality is, we seldom get it! We live in a never-ending state of “go, go, go” – coupled with a constant list of “to do’s”

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… and let me just educate those without children… when us moms DO in fact manage to “wangle” a few minutes of peace in order to regain not only our composure, but our sanity too – it is ALWAYS short lived because kids can literally SMELL the sheer pleasure emitted from our being as our behind approaches the soft cushioning of the couch… and the SECOND it hits that delightful cushion… you WILL be summoned! It WILL be a life or death situation, not one that can be fobbed off or ignored, and you will most definitely HAVE to get up and go attend to the microscopic scratch which they have been blissfully unaware of until bath time, but is now VERY CLEARLY about to end their lives… hehehehe TRUE STORY!!!!! I saw a meme once which seriously gave me the giggles, simply because it is so darn true!


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I actually really love the passion with which kids explain every minor detail of absolutely everything to you, but take that and add it to everything else on your “agenda” and it is no wonder mothers stir their pots of food so VIGOROUSLY Lol! I really am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO excited!!! The countdown has begun to 11 days of no lunch packing, no homework, dinners around the fire, waking up late and doing whatever the bloody hell we please! - NO ROUTINE!!! Whoop Whoop!!! And now, time for a HAPPY DANCE (and a glass of wine - or three)

CHEERS PEEPS! HAVE A BRILLIANT SATURDAY & DON'T FORGET TO BE FABULOUS!


THANKS GIPHY

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Until next time...
Much Love from Cape Town, South Africa xxx

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Enjoy your trip. I have to say that after we started homeschooling, the stress levels in the house went way down. No more packing lunches and rushing to and from schools, worry about whether this hat or shirt would violate the schools' rather arbitrary dress code, trying to figure out which teacher wanted which part of an assignment turned in and through which online system... It was exhausting and had little to do with education.

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Gosh, the campsite is so beautiful! Happy vacation @jaynie, you deserve to have a relaxing holiday.

It really is and I cant wait to go!!!!! Thanks hon xxx

Welcome!!

That looks amazing! You’re going to have so much fun!

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Damn Straight!!!! hahahahaha :D :)

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Dear @jaynie,

Well, I am so amazed with your gif- the mother who closes the car's luggage port. WOW! Where can I train for that? I think it would be a useful skill.

I currently do not have any kid right now but, I was raised by my mom nearly singlehandedly- my dad needed to work somewhere and, he was never around much. So, we were basically always with her. I am aware that we really drive her crazy with our antics(my sister and I) and, yes- we give new meaning to the phrase- story telling. I just cannot understand how she managed to raise us but, it was HARD. I tell you.

But now, when we speak of all the things we did as kids, I was expecting her to tell me that she hopes my kids would do that to me someday hahahahahaha but instead, she told me this: you will never be ready to have kids but when you do have them, you'd try to be the best person that you could possibly be.

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