I remember a time when I was growing up and I would hear about someone who traveled for business and I would think to myself, \u201cthey are so lucky to have such a glamorous job that they get to travel.\u201d Oh, how little I understood back then. I could not have been more wrong about the \u201cglamour\u201cof traveling\u2026.<\/p>\n
Over the years I have driven to the airport and back more times than I can count.\u00a0 It\u2019s sad when the people that work at the vending counters of the airport recognize you faster than your own coworkers do because they have seen you so many times.\u00a0 I have missed so many flights, had so many suitcases get lost in route, been stuck overnight in cities with no hotel rooms available and no luggage due to delayed planes, and I have run through airports in my high heels praying I would make it to my next connection so I could avoid being stuck.\u00a0 I have heard every delayed plane excuse known to man and dealt with more unhappy airport counter workers than I can describe.\u00a0 At one point I had to sleep in so many hotels that I actually bought the Westin hotel bed for my house so I would feel like I was sleeping in my bed when I was at the hotel. \u00a0But missing your kids and\u00a0your husband is the very worst part of travel.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 No\u2026traveling for business is not a joy\u2026at least for me.<\/p>\n
Some people aspire to someday land a job where they get to be that business traveler in the airport whisking off to important places thinking they\u2019ll get to see so many cool places when they\u2019re traveling. The sad reality is that mostly what you end up seeing is the airport, the taxi, the hotel room, and the meeting room of the client or the convention center and then you\u2019re right back to the airport. Sure you might fly into a lot of cities but you never really get to experience much of them.\u00a0 \u2026Just know that it\u2019s not exactly the glamorous lifestyle you might be envisioning…<\/p>\n
As far as I am concerned – nothing beats being home.\u00a0 Home with your family.\u00a0 Home with your own bed and your own pillow.\u00a0 Home with your pets. Home with your friends.\u00a0 Home with your coworkers.\u00a0 So today my message is to appreciate HOME!\u00a0 Home really is a great thing.\u00a0 The grass isn\u2019t greener somewhere else.\u00a0 The grass is greenest in the place your heart lies, and for me that is with my family.<\/p>\n
Look around at the people in your life that you love and that make someplace \u201chome\u201d for you and do something special to let those people know how much you love them and how much you appreciate them.\u00a0 Do something unexpected for them today!\u00a0 It can be anything from a nice handwritten note (not a text) saying all the reasons you love them, to flowers, or candy, or a power tool for your man, or cleaning the dishes or making their bed, or putting a post it note on their mirror telling them they are gorgeous!\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t take money to say I love you to someone.\u00a0 The things that say it best are the little things.\u00a0 So that is my thought tonight.<\/p>\n
TELL YOUR FAMILY\u00a0(OR SOMEONE SPECIAL) YOU LOVE THEM TODAY WITH YOUR ACTIONS (not just your words).\u00a0 AND BE HAPPY YOU ARE HOME!!!!!!<\/p>\n
~Amy Rees Anderson<\/p>\n
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