I had another interesting set of dreams last night. At one point I was out to dinner with the kids and a friend’s husband and child. We were waiting for our significant others to arrive, I believe, only in the dream their child was nearly bald. Next the dream shifted and all of us were swimming in a lake somewhere. I saw Charlie jumping off the end of a pier into the murky water and panicked, swimming over to save him. Before I could get there, however, he surfaced and began floating on his back like a pro -spurting water out of his mouth in a fountain up in the air. Next I was in a car with two of my friends (who get along fairly well these days, but aren’t really close with each other) and we were all in the front seat together. I think we were all going to a movie. Somehow they both ended up climbing onto my lap, and it was really difficult to see and drive safely. I slid the seat backward to make more room and the girl who was on the lap of the girl who was on my lap exhaled with relief, because the steering wheel had been digging into her stomach.

I don’t really think that those dreams mean anything… but they were strange. Perhaps someone could suggest meaning?

In other news… we’re planning a camping trip for later this summer, and so far everything’s falling into place nicely. I can not WAIT to get away from things here and relax in nature with my family. No phone calls from miserable hateful people who want to drag me down with them, no more going in to work and feeling like a martyr, and plenty of beauty and spiritual fulfillment. This will be just what I need, and the kids will finally get to do a little more traveling.

It’s tough being a broke adult, after all the places I got to visit with my parents as a kid. Maybe it was because I was an only child -or because both my parents were fairly good at keeping their finances in order. Unfortunately, neither of them ever took the time to sit me down and explain it to me. It’s one thing to hand out snippets of advice on saving money and being organized. It’s an entirely different thing to plan out a budget and calculate expenses versus income in a format that one can easily manage.

Guess we’ll have to keep on working on that. =)