Penny Pinching Mom

Paid Vacation

Last year Hubby didn’t get a paid vacation because his old job didn’t offer it and he wasn’t at his new one long enough. But this year, he gets one. Unfortunately we can’t really afford to go anywhere, so I won’t be shopping around for travel insurance.

We’ll be lucky if we even get to go camping. The guy who owns our old camping spot has had his land up for sale. If he’s sold it, that’s definitely out of the question. If not, he still might not want to let us camp there. So if we want to go, we’ll probably have to rent space at a campground, and Hubby probably won’t go for that.

I had hoped to be able to get season passes to Tweetsie Railroad this year, but that probably won’t happen either. Maybe we can at least scrape up the cash to take Pumpkin one day during his vacation. Not quite what I had in mind for vacation this year (was hoping we’d get a real vacation plus be able to take her there a few times), but it’s something.

I’m beginning to lose hope of ever getting to take a real vacation. I’ve been wanting to ever since we got married, and we’ve been married nearly 8 years and it hasn’t happened yet.