Thomas the Tank<\/a> when our kids were young). We ended the weekend feeling mentally and emotionally refreshed, physically rested, and ready to approach our paths with more focus.<\/p>\nSometimes you just need a break from routine to refresh you and set you back on your path. We still like to get away and go to new places to recharge – but it’s nice to know it can sometimes be accomplished at home too. (I will admit, this is another perk of being an empty nester, obviously this wouldn’t have been as effective if we still had children at home.)<\/p>\n
So, if you can’t “get away”, I encourage you to still make plans to unplug and make a temporary change to your routine. Maybe “change” will be “as good as a rest” for you too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We tried to go out of town, really we did. I requested Friday and Monday off from work, my husband arranged his work schedule (he’s self-employed) and we made reservations per TripAdvisor’s recommendation. And yet, it just didn’t feel quite right. Then, at the first of the week, a friend’s father passed away and the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[1611],"tags":[1660],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/1433930954833.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7zbKo-Z4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3786"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3790,"href":"https:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786\/revisions\/3790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}