My hubby needed a new hat. It's not that he needed an expensive or custom made hat. A new baseball cap to wear at work is all he needed. He had a general style in mind, but it wasn't anything too specific. Do you get what I'm saying here? He needed a hat to wear on his head at work that didn't stick up too far and doesn't make his ears stick out. No biggie.
Well, it's not that we don't have any place in our small town to buy a hat. We just needed to get out of town. When you're working a side hustle, you put it in the cracks and chunks of available time. Sometimes that means painting a hallway at 5 a.m., or on Saturday mornings, or measuring on a lunch hour. You just have to work with what you have.
One of the cool things about the sides hustles that my amazing hubby and I have been working on is that our kids often get to go with us. I love it! I really do. They get to see that sometimes in order to do what we really want, it takes extra effort, and it bleeds into our free time. That also means that we have a little less fun family time. It means we need to be deliberate about fun time. Enter trip to buy the hat...
It's not that we needed to drive 150 miles to buy a hat. I'm certain we could have found one closer. What we did need was to just be a family. We needed to just have some hang out time and argue about whether it's right to have Christmas songs on the radio when it's not December yet. We needed to drink our Sonic drinks and talk about weird things like what it means to be an introvert or an extrovert (and why we need both), and love languages, and what cool kids they are. I know that sounds pretty serious, but it was actually fun.
What random things do you do to get away or take a break? I'd love to hear about. Comment below.
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