I often have people who are both parents, and not parents, ask “why would you want to go spend a week walking around Disney World, fighting the crowds?”

The answer is simple. My kids love it!

Being a parent is all about love & sacrifice. That doesn’t mean you have to give up your life as an adult, but your frame of mind changes after having kids. It’s no longer JUST about you.

A few years ago when Natalie’s grandmother died, one of her friends from work came to the funeral home for visitation. The kids asked why did that person come when they never knew “Momaw Crystal.” We told them it was because she came to see Mommy, and because she cared about Mommy.

That story made a really good moral. Too many times in life we do what’s convenient for us instead of doing what’s right for the people around us.

I feel like I’m blessed with the greatest job in the world, or at least Kentucky. I’ll be shooting the Sweet 16 next week when I get back and doing what I enjoy, so taking off a week to do something that makes my kids happy is more than worth it.