At least we won’t be going north again for the holidays.
We don’t like that it came to that, but enough is just enough. Since we’ve been married, we have gone up north with our partners to their parent’s house for Christmas. We don’t like going north in the winter time for apparent reasons. We go through a blistering summer time with all sorts of air conditioning just to enjoy the winter. Then we took an entire month of our limited trip time to go to the chilly during the best time of year at home. Both of us think we’ve been stewing on this for some time, but we are also the sort of girls who always try to make the best of things. Plus, it’s our partners’ family and we’d do anything for them. But Christmas trip 12 will be the last time. Their mom rules the roost in her house with an iron fist. And just a few mornings into our trip, she went ballistic on us for asking to lower the control component a bit. She keeps that house so hot in the winter time that we are perspiring if we are wearing anything more than underwear. Well, she freaked out at the suggestion that we were uncomfortable. And it went downhill from there. All of us got through Christmas day and ended up leaving a day early. On the way home, we just broke it down to our partners that we won’t be going back. It wasn’t so much a discussion as it was a declaration on our part. So Christmas going forward is going to be awesome. We’ll be in the sun with hot uneven temperatures and enjoying our own control component any way we want it. But mostly, the heat pump is simply off during winter time and that’s superb by us.