Taking a Little Time Off

I am leaving for Massachusetts in the morning to go visit my family and as always I am a bit torn. Why? Because I still have a hard time just leaving work behind. I believe that deep inside this work-aholic is a woman who is just dying to kick back and lay on the beach or sit on the back porch overlooking the water and just read a book. I have to coax her out though and she often puts up a fight cloaked in the "I still have to."..or "I should be working" ....or "I have so much to do."

If it was anyone else but family it would be even harder to tear myself away. Don't get me wrong I do enjoy work but I often know that I can fall out of balance and lean too heavily into the responsibilities and not enough to the family relationships. Both are not equally important and in the end I would rather have the relationships. And some of my most precious relationships have come about because of work.....if my nose is buried in my work I miss nurturing these important unions.

So off I go to see all the family leaving my internet behind (Mom doesn't want it in her house) and I will have to turn my full attention to those I love the most. I am hoping for a little beach time since I miss being close to the water living in the western part of New Jersey but probably the best thing is that I will be taking my own advice and getting my life a little more in balance.