There's no place like home.

After a recent trip to the Thousand Islands with my family, I decided that I love being home. Don't get me wrong, I had a wonderful time and I know my kids did too which is the most important. But I think I take being home for granted sometimes. Here is a list:

1. I don't like showering with flip-flops on. When you are at a state park you have two choices: flip-flops or else. The else are planters warts, other peoples hair wrapped around your toes, maybe even AIDS, who knows. But the problem with the flip-flops is they get slippery. When it comes time to wash your feet and you take one out to do so, you're balancing on one slippery flop. If you're not careful, you can kill yourself cleaning your foot. And then when the shower is done, you have to walk back to camp with slippery flops. The whole thing is a mess.
   
2. Sleeping is not an issue, unless you are two. It was a struggle every night to get my two year old asleep. We never have a problem with this at home. But camping was another story. Every night it was a circus of walking her around the park until she fell asleep, putting in a movie to try and make her drowsy, taking her for car rides. This was way too much work when all I did was stay up all night afraid she might wake and I would have to do damage control.
3. I know where all the drug stores are at home. I don't know where they were out there. So on Sunday night when I wasn't feeling well and didn't have the right medicine, I found myself driving all over town past nothing but cows and falling down barns. Not good when you don't feel well. Random cows were useless to me.
   
4. I need a familiar toilet. This has always been an issue for me. And without getting too personal, state park bathrooms can be a little iffy sometimes. I have a hard time going when my choices are a toilet that isn't flushed from the last person, a stall infested with mosquitoes (I don't need a bug bite on my butt!), or a stall where the toilet paper roll rests on the filthy floor! I would rather hold it.
   

I always love visiting The Islands, but when I get home I sleep better, don't get bug bites on my butt while peeing, and I know where to get medicine when I don't feel well. And, I leave the flops at the door.