Just Parents Under the Stars
One of the main things parents can do to be better parents is to get away from the kids once in a while. A little Mom and Dad R and R without anyone begging me to butter their toast or look for their favorite doll can do wonders for my parenting skills.
My husband and I stumbled upon some great luck last night. We had traveled to Rexburg, Idaho, (sans kids) so my husband could give a talk to a group of political science students. After the talk we went out to dinner and to a movie and were walking into the hotel discussing how it was too cloudy to see any stars. My husband was disappointed about this. We got up to our hotel room to discover that our door was broken and wouldn’t lock. So we had to change rooms. The only room available was the Galaxy Fantasy Suite.We had stumbled into our own Star Trek Hollodeck. “Energize!”
Our room was painted like the solar system with a rock-hewn jacuzzi and a waterfall in the corner. A big screen TV piped digital sound around the room. The bathroom sink was shaped like a planet with lights underneath the glass surface. The water from the faucet cascaded in a fanned-like shape into the bowl. Best of all were the twinkling stars that sparkled on the ceiling.
My husband got his stars after all. Hopefully I will have rejuvenated enough to deal with the kids for the rest of the summer. Except that Darren tells me we’re going on an 8-mile hike today. I might be going home on a stretcher.
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