I am always forgetting to check for Jeremy Blumel’s online column in The Chief. Here is an excerpt followed by a link to the actual article.
‘It’s just before Christmas and the family visiting has begun, with nights spent in spare rooms as a family, bedtimes thrown right off, far too much drinking and eating to be healthy, and tempers flaring as sleep-deprived parents battle their kids and their own ma and pa for precious sleep and parenting tidbits. At the same time, however, there’s close bonding time when all the various members of the family come together and re-remember how and why they are all part of a larger family unit. While this is all going on, somewhere back in my mind – not quite at the forefront but definitely not at the back – is the planning, thinking, scheming and dreaming of the spring roadtrip.’
See full article here.
