Thankful for healthy holidays

Holidays are paradoxically the best and sometimes the hardest part of the year. There's usually at least some level of expectation what's going to happen, where we'll go, what we'll do and how we're supposed to feel about it all.

As a family of five it's only bound to happen every once in a while that just when the holiday is around the corner, someone gets sick. The last example is only from two weeks ago when our children were on holiday for two weeks from school, our youngest one got chickenpox. There's absolutely nothing to do about it once it's on. From the holiday's perspective it got cut short for a few days and we spent more than enough time at home waiting for him to recover before even attempting some local things to do to make up for the lost time. 

Something similar happened two Christmases ago when we traveled to Finland and during our holiday there, we only had one day at the destination when everyone was feeling well enough to do something other than sleep. One of the kids was sick on the way, one on the way back and the rest of us sometime in between.

So yes, holidays are the best and sometimes the hardest too.

But when things go right, then it doesn't matter whether it's Christmas or summer holiday. In other words I'm grateful for holidays we get to enjoy healthy and together without external stress factors.