We had plans this year for a big vacation. We were planning to be gone for an entire week. It would be the first time our family has taken a whole week for a vacation. We’ve been planning this particular vacation for years. Disney. Yes, Disney!
We’ve had some criteria. I wanted the kids to be old enough to walk around all day by themselves and not get whiney-tired. We are there!! In recent years, we’ve also added that this would be done with cash!
This was going to be our year! I’d even selected our lodging and we’d put a deposit down! We were going to be on our way!
Today we changed plans. I felt like we were letting the kids down. We’d promised them that this was the year! But, we have a very good reason to change plans. I sat the kids down and I had tears in my eyes. I know that sounds silly because it is just a vacation. But I truly felt like I was letting the kids down. And if there is anyone in the world that I don’t want to let down, it is my family.
These goofy kids! They were relieved! They had all been nervous about flying! They started talking about where else we could go instead! They want to go to a waterpark 🙂 We can absolutely go to a water park!
Tonight I am thankful for the chance to put our plans aside to bless someone else who is going thru a heart-breaking time in life. I am thankful for my kids who took the news amazingly well and who were already planning on a Plan B. And I am thankful for the kids seeing that our plans are not always the best plans – and when we realize that, we change to the right decision. Right decisions aren’t always easy, but they are always, always, always worth it
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