a five year old who just lost a trip he’d been looking forward to for a month.
the first reaction my wife and i had was to do something splurge-y to replace the trip. what sort of big, fun thing could we do to replace the disappointment of losing our trip?
after we thought about it for a bit, though, we realized that what we were missing was the fun of the trip, not the splurge of the trip, so we spent the rest of the weekend with that idea fully in mind.
we had a movie marathon with the lights turned down low and bowls of popcorn for everyone (so that the 