What do you enjoy doing most in your leisure time?

I dreamed when I retired my husband and I would spend our leisure time camping in the mountains of North Georgia and North Carolina.

Instead we are caring for my mother who has dementia. So leisure time doesn’t involve traveling in our truck with a camper but, I travel wherever I want to go through reading.

Reading is the greatest leisure of all! I don’t have to pack or shop for the trip. I don’t have to remind my husband twenty times to make sure he does this or does that! I don’t have the hassle of booking a spot at a campsite then finding out when we get there – ”Oh, We don’t show a reservation for you!” Then there is the fuel cost – Geesh!! Just imagine how much more money I can waste on crafts and grandkids if we don’t have to spend a thousand dollars on fuel!!

My momma worked hard all her life. She cared for both my Daddy and my only sibling until both passed away from different battles with terminal illnesses while I was raising my family. So I do not have any animosity or bitterness about caring for her.

We don’t get any leisure time except every Thursday when a paid sitter comes and stays with Momma so we can run errands and go to lunch together. But, when I walk out to our front porch sit in my swing and begin to read I travel all over the world. My mind steps out of reality into a wonderful adventure and for now that is enough for me.