AL, I'm so glad you had a lovely time away with your family. Yes, it can be sad to return to the day-to-day, and especially to work. I used to work seasonally (spring and fall with lots of overtime, then minimal hours in winter and summer). It could be really depressing sometimes when the busy work season was starting again. Some people are lucky or plan well and can do work that they truly love, that is their passion, but for a lot of us, work is ... work. The thing that helped me was to try to identify a few things that work brought me -- economic security, mainly -- and express gratitude for that. Even when I didn't love my work, I was grateful that it gave me a home, food, and money for vacations.