Sometimes You Need a Little Time Away

Sometimes, the theme song to "Cheers" is not your theme song.  Because sometimes you need to go where no one knows your name, where everybody is not the same.  You need to make that 2.5 hour drive to North Conway, New Hampshire, to the nice albeit cheesy resort place to do things you wouldn't normally do, but that you need to do, just because you can. Sometimes you need to spend a few hard-earned quarters in the game room...

...and humor your enormous mother in Dance Dance Revolution...

Sometimes you need to hug a penguin...

Sometimes you need to wake up to the White Mountains, to the sound of gutters dripping instead of horns and buses and construction zones.

Sometimes you need to try on your first life jacket, even though you'll pitch it the second you get inside the indoor waterpark.

Sometimes you need to hear your kid say, "I had fun with you, Mommy!" and know she means it.