Holidays

Do you remember when holidays meant a long weekend, hitting the club three nights in a row, renting a cabin by the beach with five friends, taking a road trip, sleeping in late or engorging yourself with good food at fancy new cocktail bars until the wee hours?

Does saving up money to buy copious amounts of candies and knick-knacks, booking your only vacation days from work around your children's days off from school and then awaking to the sound of falling toys and screaming on these only free days sound better?

What about trying to plan entertaining outings that you can take as a group of unkempt, socially out of touch travelers? (Where entertaining involves petting zoos, overcrowded swimming pools, noisy playgrounds and fast food restaurants)?

How about giving up some of the only moments of possibly re-establishing social contact to former friends in order to watch children's tv and read about the same picture books at least three times on one weekend?

TGIF and hooray for the holidays, indeed.