Spring it just about fixed!

This week was spring break for Richardson ISD, as well as most of the ISD’s in and around Dallas.

As for us, we took a vacation to McKinney, Texas. McKinney is about 30 miles north of Dallas straight up I-75. My in-laws live there and we just needed to be somewhere that wasn’t home.

We were only there from Saturday to Wednesday, but I was quite surprised at how “vacationish” those five days felt. I guess it was just being away from our stuff. Stuff like our TV, our phone, and our kitchen…basically being away from our house is what gave it that vacation feel.

Saturday was our seventeenth anniversary and we stayed downtown at the Tartan Thistle, a wonderful old house that’s been turned into a bed and breakfast. Here's their web site. Thank you Phyllis and Homer. The rest of our stay we spent at my in-law’s house.

On Monday, I went car shopping with Homer. I’ve mentioned Homer, the king of car shoppers, here when he helped me buy a car. However, last time I was in school when he did all the behind the scenes, Internet wheeling and dealing. This time I got to witness some of the game. He spent all day Sunday sending emails to dealers all over Texas and a few in Oklahoma requesting price quotes on very specific cars and trucks.

Monday, we drove to Weatherford (west of Fort Worth) just to meet the salesman, check out the cars and then drive away. “It’s all part of the game.” Homer said. “I need to see how badly he wants to sell me that car. I’ll poke around, toss out some numbers here and there, then we’ll drive off and leave him guessing.” Homer asked the salesman to email him a quote on a specific truck we had been looking at. Then we left and drove back to McKinney.

Two hours on the road, an hour and a half at the dealership, and a two-hour drive back without a new anything. Oddly enough, I think it went just the way he had it planned.

I’m afraid I don’t have the patience for that kind of car buying. I fall in love to easily with a car and decide I have to have THAT car. But that’s not how Homer works. “If they sell the car I’m looking at then I’ll just find the same thing somewhere else or I’ll look for something else to buy.”

I got the feeling that doesn’t happen very often. I mean there wasn’t a long line of people standing there waiting to drive off in new cars.

So that was Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday were just lazy days sitting in front of a 72 inch TV doing my best to watch everything that satellite dish has to offer. (We only have an antenna in the attic and nine channels)

Spring was broken, but it’s just about fixed, and I got a little time away from reality. Come Monday morning, spring will be fixed and school will be ready to commence, right on schedule.

But, do not shed tears for me!

I had my fun, my time away from it all, my “break” as it were. I’m rejuvenated and ready to teach again. I’ll be there on the front lines, shooing away cobwebs from young minds.

So no, do not cry for me. Mine is not a job, but a calling.



And besides…there’s only 10 more weeks ‘til summer!