I think life is pretty demanding at our age. On the one hand, we have parents who are older, often crotchety and sometimes ill, and on the other, we have teenagers (mostly!) doing exams or coming up to crucial points in their education, or just being teens, which brings its own stresses. And then there is work, with the constant urges to "do more with less", to prioritise, but not actually stop doing something, because it all still needs to be done, and the constant ageism that we have to put up with. And I think we do a fine job of doing it all. But it would be nice to have a rest sometimes, and just to get away from everything, I think, without worrying about there being no food in the house everything coming crashing down, because you are juggling so many things that something has to give.
I will be offline until Friday evening - no phone and no internet. Sending love to you, especially, Rose, at this time.