We Take Ourselves Everywhere We Go: Vacation

Not the vacation glitz and glamour authentically and inathentically (hello, my camera Miss America smile is clearly a bit lackluster here) apparent in our other photos--this is: wet, SOGGY, cold, and in a parking lot strip mall (ughhhh the worst!), but...on a vacation date AND under a double rainbow. "Look, Love, I'm your pot o' gold at the end of the rainbow!" At some point in your vacation journey, you go from the anticipation, to the bliss of it all finally beginning so beautifully--and even if it's not perfect it's still beautiful, to...well...we take ourSELVES everywhere we go, don't we? I ended up telling my kids (ahem especially ONE of them) this often, on this trip. This, "Remember: you take yourSELF everywhere you go," combined with: "You know, if you spend your time just looking for things to be dissatisfied about, you're going to have a miserable life." Trust me, I'm experienced. (Kids don't care, though. ...