I’m off for a week

Emma and I are going up north until next Friday with my parents. It’s Emma’s reading week so she’s packed a ton of those doorstopper law books she’s been immersed in for the last three years. She’s also packed several recipe books and is looking forward to doing some cooking because she finds it “relaxing.” Here’s hoping Emma will be doing a lot of relaxing this week in the Internet-less world of the Great White North!
I have packed my corresponding ton of books; art supplies, research material etc., and as usual found it very difficult to know what to take, and what to leave behind. Lily is going with us too, and fortunately—as long as she has plenty of grub—she’s happy. I wonder if food is to Lily what books are to me? Whatever is going on in her little doggy mind, I’m sure it’s less complicated than what’s going on in mine.