The Calm Before the Norm

I just returned from a glorious two week vacation, the longest vacation I've taken in my entire life (unless you count when I was really little and had no clue what was going on). Husband had some use it or lose it vacation time and it turned out to be cheaper to do two weeks in one place then two different vacations spread out so we decided to just go whole hog.

When we first scheduled it, we were afraid it would be too close to Christmas break and that we wouldn't be ready f...