Caleb & I officially took our longest vacation ever the past 2 weeks. We were gone for 12 days straight! And while we were having serious doubts about leaving... pregnancy, mid-bar renovation, puppy, no easy contact with the U.S., holiday season, severe flooding at our destination... we decided to say a little prayer & pursue the Thai adventure we had been planning for over a year. While the details of the trip will be saved for a later post, the thing I am most grateful for today is the fact that we returned to the States to be surprised by a restaurant & a home that were completely under control.... actually, even better than when we left. Now I hate to sound like a cynic but this is the first vacation we have taken that perpetuated this way. Our pup did not get arrested because he got loose in a kiddie playground & accidentally bit a toddler. None of our staff members got arrested. We didn't get an angry email about how horrible our restaurant service has become. The house was not partied in & trashed. There wasn't a 2 weeks notice on my desk that was dated the day we left. There was not a urine soaked mattress that had been fermenting all week resulting in a trip to the dumpster. And there wasn't a menagerie of Post-its on my desk requesting things like... more Post-its. No, in fact, it was quite the opposite. The dogs were happy & well fed. The restaurant had little to report out of the ordinary other than a regular customer had the "best meal of her life" one evening. And the major construction project that we left in the middle of was completed on time & even better than we had hoped! One minute we were stressing over paint colors & layout & how dumb it was that we were abandoning everything for 2 weeks.... And the next minute we return home to this....
...a new dining room & a bar in sweet motion. For the first time it not only felt good to leave but it also felt good to come home.
Wow! That looks amazing! I'm pumped to hear about your trip too.
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