Whenever I ask my mom about whether or not I should do something fun she always says “yes.” Should I extend my vacation a day so I can go to a dance party and take a red eye home and go straight to work from the airport? Yes. There’s a blogger weekend in Las Vegas in May, should I go? Yes. Should we get dessert? Yes. The answer is always yes.

A few years ago my mom had this epiphany about life. She decided that it doesn’t make sense for the older people to have all the money. We work our whole lives to have the money to take vacations that we are then too old to truly appreciate and enjoy. This realization has led to her being extra generous and always encouraging me to do fun things. I’m young. This is the time.

My moms birthday is this Thursday, May 10th, (also Mother’s Day in Mexico, so if you know any Mexican mothers tell them “feliz dia de las madres!”) . On Friday I am driving to Palm Springs to spend the weekend with her. We are going to go shopping, make a dress for Las Vegas, and have a Mother’s Day brunch. It’s going to be a busy but joyous weekend. There may even be a new baby–my prima is due on the 10th with her fifth child!

Sunday night I get home and enter into a whirlwind three days of studying for two weeks worth of classes, packing for Las Vegas, hyperventilating over Las Vegas (seriously, my eye has been twitching for days. I need to relax) and interning during the day. I arrive in Las Vegas late Wednesday. And then…well, then I have the most awesome weekend ever with 59 other bloggers.

I return home from Las Vegas on Monday and go straight to work (see Mom advice above). I then proceed to repeat the three days prior to Las Vegas because on Thursday morning I am flying to St. Louis. Yup. Three crazy weekends in a row. A dear friend of mine invited me to St. Louis. He is a musician and I basically get to hang out with a bunch of amazing musicians and watch them perform at fancy venues all weekend.

Finally, at the end of the month I get to take a deep breath and not go anywhere for a while. At least that’s the plan. 2012 has been nothing but excitement. Each time I’ve thought I could take a breath something else has been added to the list of things to do. What’s amazing is that almost all of the things are exciting. My life is continuing to be just as phenomenal as I told you before. Yesterday I started to complain about how busy I am going to be this month and then had to stop and realize how lucky I am. I may be a little stressed about packing, meeting new people and managing an internship and classes but whoa–the things I am going to be doing are so worth the extra work.

I’ll be sure to update in June with lots of fun photos of my May adventures. If you don’t hear from me this month, you know why.

Does anyone else have exciting summer plans?

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