The stress at work was really getting to me. My husband said he really thought I was starting to lose it. So our family ran away to the lake for the weekend. It was wonderful! I slept, relaxed, read a book, played with the kids. It was just what we all needed. I am so thankful for this weekend. It was really hard packing up and heading home. The nice thing is we will we going back to the lake later this summer – and this time for a least a week! Yay!
P.S. My husband is itching to blog about this, so I’d better tell you about my little adventure this morning. I got this great idea of renting a canoe and going out onto the lake alone to spend some quiet time with God. Peaceful and relaxing, right? Well, not really. (The lake I decided to canoe out onto by myself is Chitek Lake, which is a very large lake. It doesn’t take much wind to stir up the water.) At first I wanted to row out to an island halfway on the other side of the lake, but the waves kept turning the canoe the wrong way. I finally gave up, rested for a few minutes and then decided I’d better head back to the shore. The only problem was I was over halfway to the other side and I couldn’t get the canoe to turn around. The best I could do was get the canoe heading towards the shoreline which was at a right angle to the shore where I was supposed to be heading. I thought if I canoed hard enough, the canoe would eventually turn enough to be heading in the right direction. This did not happen. Here I was on the other side of the lake, and I couldn’t turn the canoe around. I started to get pretty anxious. Finally I decided if I couldn’t turn the canoe around, I would just start paddling backwards. That worked, but I was also working against the wind and the waves (they weren’t very big, but they were enough in this little canoe with one person to cause problems). It took a long time to get back. Three hours after I headed out onto the lake, I made it to the place where I had rented the canoe. Lesson learned – next time I go out on Chitek Lake, it will be under motorized power!
I love it. I am glad you had a relaxig weekend and I hope that you can enjoy the rest of your summer without too much stress.