This is one of my favorite passages about what vacations are.

I love the image of stealing.

Stealing time.

Stealing art.

Stealing moments with each other.

I want to go, experience, travel, and do – and I want to hold hands with my family while I do it.

And how I love Vacations are the act of grabbing minutes and hours and days with both hands, stealing against the inevitability of time. There will be a day when our family as we know it will no longer exist, and I want to know in that moment that I wasn’t at the office or doing the dishes when I could have been walking on the dock with my dad, when I could have been drinking tea and eating ginger cookies on the porch with my mom. I don’t want to be building my bank account or my abs or my dream house when I could be dancing with Aaron at the beach bar on New Year’s Eve, when I could be making crackers and cheese for dinner because we were on the boat till way after the shops closed, sunburnt and sandy and windblown, and happier there and together than anywhere else with anyone else.

–Shauna Niequist, Cold Tangerines (Amazon)