I will admit, I was burning out today. Work has been very grueling, especially now that it is end of the year, and I am managing 9 people which is one over the technical maximum for team size-limits.
Still, in spite of my burnout, I had a trip to look forward to (leaving to Dead Horse Point tonight), and also, I was bouyed up by all of the beauty happening around me in my family. For example, here is sweet Mary reading to Ammon. I have to laugh because in the backgound, you can see me holding my forehead on the couch during a break at work…..yeah, I was ready for a vacation.
Lily also was in desperate need of a vacation. She got a UTI on our last trip to Arizona. Then she took anti-biotics, but it still turned into a really bad infection that she could feel in her kidneys. Then she got an insane yeast infection, thrush, and a crazy skin rash that broke out and started moving all around her body at different times. Additionally, she’s been having weird things with the circulation in her hands, where her hands will lose feeling during the night sometimes. I’m really worried about her health :(. Needless to say, I think we both needed a getaway from the daily grind, especially Lily who now has extra pressure during the day with Lydia and Mary homeschooling and Ammon and Clarissa only in preschool 5 hours per week.
Another sweet moment during the day was when Ammon danced to “This is Me” from The Greatest Showman. Here is a video.
It took us a few times to get out the door. First we came back to the house to print out something that would give us a free National Parks pass because Obama started a program for families with a fourth-grader, then we came back for an air-matress and then finally we pulled out. Yay vacation, albeit two days, it’s amazing how immersed one can become in powerful nature in just two days in Utah.