The View from the Top

What a week!   

This week has flown by in the blink of an eye, yet at the same time, I feel as though Friday was taking its sweet ol’ time getting here!  How does that happen?  I feel like I’ve been on a really long hike, and the summit is just up ahead.  This hasn’t been a leisurely stroll.  This has been one of those “come on, it’ll be easy!” hikes my hubby used to convince me to take.  The journey up the trail is arduous, but the view from the top is amazing.

I’m not sure why this week has been such a struggle.  Claire has been really good.  She’s made my job quite challenging, but that’s nothing new.  I didn’t get completely slammed with files like I have the last couple weeks.  It’s funny, but my job always reminds me of Boyle’s Law.  It’s that law we learned in high school about how a gas will expand to fill its container.  That is exactly what happened with my week!   I think I had fewer things to do, but they expanded to fill my time.

So, I’ve been hiking and hiking and hiking, and at around 3pm, everyday, I’d see what I thought to be the summit!  There it is!  We’ve almost made it!  I take another drink of water, tighten my backpack straps, and trudge on up the trail.  We get to the top, and see that this isn’t the top.  The top is over there!  It’s not much farther.  Honest.  Come on, be a good sport.  Stop looking at me like that.  I thought you liked hiking.  Stop being such a wussy. 

This scenario was repeated every day for a week.  That’s why I’m so tired.      

But, it’s Friday!  We made it!  I really can see the top from here!  I have just a couple of files to wrap up, and then I should be able to enjoy the view. 

Daddy is leaving tonight to go on a real backpacking trip (not the fictitious one that’s been taunting me all week).  Claire and I will get to have a girls’ weekend!  We love it when Daddy’s at home, but having a weekend to ourselves is nice too. 

I’m not sure what we’ll do, yet…but I don’t think we’ll do much hiking.  I’ve done enough of that already.