Summer holidays - Could it be any better?

After quite a long time I was all alone sitting outside, sipping my tea enjoying the cool morning breeze, watching the beautiful flowers that bloomed in my garden.  The heavy downpour of short duration, a couple of days ago had brought down the temperature drastically.  Thanks a ton to that fair share of rain that washed away the scorching heat.  

Vacation over.  School has reopened and kids are back to their busy schedule allowing me to do some serious writing and blogging.   

Well, to start with, I wish to mention about the plans for the vacation. This vacation, I had already decided on some important activities for my kids - car driving for my sixteen year old, and some readings for my twelve year olds' to enhance knowledge and some family fun activities.  And finally a short tour to hometown, to visit their grandma.   As soon as the vacation commenced, I implemented my plans. 

Visiting hometown was the most enjoyable one for kids.  The short tour though was exhausting as most of the time was spent in travelling, was worth it as I was able to execute all my planned activities. To be more precise, I completed some of my long pending jobs.  Above all I was with my mom throughout my stay.   I took her everywhere I visited.  The last minute plan to visit a temple for which we had to travel approx. 200 km added a new dimension to my tour – thrill of a short sail in a ferry... 

Do have a look of some of the pic below!  

Isn't that good enough to keep the kids engaged gainfully during vacation?  

And of course there were good share of unplanned, unscheduled moments of holiday-nothingness, when they watched the cartoon, films and there were the extra hours of sleep too.   

Being back from my tour, what I believed would be refreshing, did not seem so.  I felt something in me has changed.  I felt lost.  I struggled to figure it out.  Finally, this morning, I realized that I am stuck in the middle of the changes around me.   Changing times change people. 

Accepting it as a law of nature, I have to pull myself away from the stuck and get back on my track.