Holiday Weekends

My philosophy on holiday weekends is unencumbered. I don't mind of there are planned activities or none at all. I take advantage of both kinds.

Planned activities can be fun. Not having planned activities is equally fun, although in a different sort of way. There are always a multitude of things that I never have time to do (so it seems) so having unplanned time means I can tackle one of those things. Or maybe even several.

If it is a holiday, I do try to work in something that is unusual. The unusual thing for me is reading a book. Not listening to a book on tape, but reading one the old fashioned way. My entire life being considered, it is unusual for me that reading a book would be unusual. We're talking about the girl who used to inhale books at the rate of 6-8 per day. And those are days when I could only read in the evenings and here and there a bit in between! The library shuttered when it saw our family coming. My family would limit me to 50 books and split the other 50 of our family limit between the rest of them. Happily we visited the library every 3 weeks to get new reading material.

Those days are long past. Now I have gone months without reading anything but my Bible and devotional materials (book-wise). I also find that I enjoy a more moderate pace when reading, instead of the headlong dash I used to enjoy. Of course, it may also be a reflection of the heavier reading material I tend to tackle, although I still enjoy "children's" stories from time to time.

This holiday weekend I have some of everything in mind. There is the unplanned time for tackling piles of paperwork, our video library cataloging project I started last weekend, and maybe even a book or two. We will be having some family over for Labor Day. And I am looking forward to whatever else it brings.