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July 20, 2009 - Family Vacations

Like many of my readers, I’ve enjoyed traveling to various parts of this beautiful country.  There is much to see.  Some of my best memories occurred during some very simple but meaningful vacation trips with my family.  We would visit and enjoy places like Lake Camanche, Lake Berryessa and Lake Shasta in California.

Great memories were built between casts and water-skiing activities.  I’m reminded of how important it is to spend quality time with those we love.  In an interview for Today’s Christian Woman, writer and speaker Carol Kent said this:

“One day when (my son) Jason was young, we were eating breakfast together.  I had on an old pair of slacks and a fuzzy old sweater.  He flashed his baby blues at me over his cereal bowl and said, ‘Mommy, you look so pretty today.’

I didn’t even have makeup on! So I said, ‘Honey, why would you say I look pretty today?  Normally I’m dressed up in a suit and high heels.’

And he said, ‘When you look like that, I know you’re going some place; but when you look like this, I know you’re all mine.”

Nothing can replace the beauty of being together with those we love.  Enjoy each and every moment you can with your loved ones.  Life is precious.