Last night, No. 4 asked me, “When are we going on another field trip?” Thinking that he was talking about school and their recent jaunt to the pumpkin patch, I said that I didn’t know, but I’m sure his class had something planned pretty soon.

 

He said, “No, I mean when are we going on a field trip where we get to miss school and go on an airplane?”

 

Ha! He was referring to our adventure to San Francisco last month for the Army family program. I gently burst his bubble and told him that those kinds of trips are a special treat that we won’t get to do very often, but wasn’t it a blessing that we got to go twice already? Deflated a bit, he agreed that it was a lot of fun.

 

We’ll certainly try to take a family vacation at some point each year, but more than likely, it won’t be on an airplane or during a school day. 🙂