2 Adults 2 Kids » fear http://2adults2kids.com Seeing the world....on a budget. Tue, 21 Jul 2009 03:29:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 First Few Days In Hawaii http://2adults2kids.com/2008/08/05/first-few-days-in-hawaii/ http://2adults2kids.com/2008/08/05/first-few-days-in-hawaii/#comments Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:19:25 +0000 KJ http://2adults2kids.com/?p=168 So, Hawaii was … interesting. On our first day at the beach we learned that Widget was deathly afraid of the ocean. I mean, Midget wasn’t too happy about getting in the water either, but at least she tried and she didn’t cry. The first time we walked Widget to the water he started screaming bloody murder! This instantly upset CM. He sat Widget down and began talking to him about not letting fear dominate you. I , of course, felt that he was being to hard on him, but he (CM) made a good point. He said if we don’t teach him courage now, when will he learn?

We ended up leaving the beach after that thinking that Widget would want to go back later and try swimming. He didn’t. The next day CM was sunburned and decided he was going to stay in the cabin. The kids and I built sand castles for hours when I finally decided it was time to get in the water. Widget screamed his head off again. This time it was me who was upset and we headed back in.

Widget’s refusal to get in the water made things a little tense because we had a ton of water activities planned for the trip. It wasn’t all bad though. We made a few food runs and we really got to see how beautiful the island is. Our cabins were on the other side of the island, far away from Waikiki, so there weren’t a lot of chain restaurants and stores.

We stayed in a cabin that was about 30 feet from the beach. It was awesome being able to watch the sunrise over the ocean in the morning. The only bad thing: ants. I remembered when I registered for the cabin there was a clause in the paperwork that said ants weren’t a justification for a refund because all beaches have ants. I didn’t think anything of it. Then we went to the cabin. They were tiny little buggers, but there were so many of them. Now that I think about it, I can’t for the life of me figure out why I didn’t take any video of them.

And that was how our first few days in Hawaii went.

]]> http://2adults2kids.com/2008/08/05/first-few-days-in-hawaii/feed/ 0 Hollywood, Small Towns, and Me (KJ) http://2adults2kids.com/2008/06/19/hollywood-small-towns-and-me-kj/ http://2adults2kids.com/2008/06/19/hollywood-small-towns-and-me-kj/#comments Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:00:32 +0000 KJ http://2adults2kids.com/?p=79 I am just going to put this out there. I have seen so many scary movies that take place in small towns, that I’m a little scared to visit them. Maybe it’s just that positive movies about small towns just don’t become blockbusters. While films like “Jeepers Creepers”, “A Time to Kill”, “Strangers”, “Texas Chainsaw Massacre”, and a few others were big blockbusters and have made me think of small towns as places where serial killers live and the towns are full of racists citizens and law enforcement.

Hollywood has made me afraid to visit new places. I’m tired of it and something has got to change.

Now that I think about it, it’s not just small towns, I am generally afraid of the unknown. I think I have Yahoo News and Hollywood to thank for that. And yes, I realize this is not a good quality to have if one is about to embark on a life of traveling, but how will our multicultural family be received? Am I being ridiculous?

I expect for our family to learn some hard lessons on this trip. But I thought the lessons would be about learning to tell the difference between needs and wants, how to conserve, and how to respect others’ from different cultures.

I don’t know if I’m prepared to explain racism, abuse of authority, or other topics like that.

Help me out on this, am I totally out of line here? What do you think about small town America? For our readers who consider themselves to be from small town America, what do you think about big cities? Do you think Hollywood makes you afraid of places like NYC?

]]> http://2adults2kids.com/2008/06/19/hollywood-small-towns-and-me-kj/feed/ 3 “Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway” (KJ) http://2adults2kids.com/2008/05/30/feel-the-fear-and-do-it-anyway/ http://2adults2kids.com/2008/05/30/feel-the-fear-and-do-it-anyway/#comments Fri, 30 May 2008 23:47:25 +0000 KJ http://2adults2kids.com/?p=12 That’s the name of the book I bought when I was trying to be a better Mary Kay salesperson. I never finished it, but I see it on the book shelf from time to time and I think about reading.

I’ve been thinking about fear a lot lately. We just watched “Apocalypto” the other night and a major theme was not letting fear control you. That being said, I am FREAKING OUT about the big move! Some guy came and took away my computer monitors this morning, so I feel like there’s no turning back at this point. I mean, why stay at the apartment if I don’t have my computer?? But what am I going to do in an RV without it??

I’m just going to put it all of my fears out there:
– I’m scared of being robbed
– I’m scared that someone’s going to break a window in order to rob me
– I’m scared of being bored out of my mind
– I’m scared that I am going to be too scared to leave the RV unattended
– I’m scared that gas is going to hit $10 a gallon before I get to take my kids to all of the places I want them to see.
– I’m scared that if someone (*looking at CM*) goes #2 then it’s going to spread throughout the RV and we won’t be able to get the smell out!

Okay, the first and last ones are my biggest fears, but I can’t let that control me. I really want to do something different with my life while I’m young enough to bounce back if it doesn’t work out.

I’ve got to feel the fear and do it anyway….

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