Every summer we travel which I love and look forward to. This summer, we are planning our first ever “stay-cation”.
Do you know what that means? No resorts, no hotels with someone else cleaning up after my family of five. No sleeping in hotel beds, wearing big fluffy white robes, no lounging at the Spa having a facial, massage, mani/pedi , or anti-aging scrub.
I needed to start looking at the positives of this year’s summer plans in order to avoid utter disappointment over missing our trip to Boston, Chicago, Arizona, Calgary, San Fran or Halifax. I happened upon a magazine article in O The Oprah Magazine, titled 40 Ways to Love Your Summer more. This article inspired me to find ways to enjoy our stay-cation!
I should mention that the reason for our non-trip summer, is that we had an in-ground salt water pool installed last Fall. For our first stay-cation at least we have an in-ground pool to enjoy! In order to enjoy the time off work while staying home, I plan to ditch the normal household routines, read by the pool, mix up pitchers of iced tea and sangria to enjoy by the pool, take day trips to sites close to home that we’ve never seen, watch movies and hire someone to come in and clean the house that week. In the end, I’m quite certain it will be a very relaxing stay-cation/vacation from work and I know it will cost much less than travelling as a family of five.