Uniquely Yours Craft Journal

Dear Fellow Journalers,

The following is MaryBeth’s perspective on summer staycations:

What parent, at some time or other, has decided that a slow, awesome staycation summer is the ticket to a great adventure for their family? One summer, when our 5 kids were small, we planned a staycation. We’re all about exploring and crafting in our home so we decided that once a week we would do just that. Our only stipulation was that each one of our children would write about their adventures in a journal which we provided.

Some of our adventures were:

1. We took a ride on a train to a nearby town. T.J. (our oldest) liked looking at the scenery as we whizzed by.
2. Our girls like to play “dress-up”, so one day we put on a play for Dad, complete with rented costumes.
3. We took the kids bowling- a sport they’d only seen on TV.
4. One rainy day, we binged on TV movies and ate snacks all day . Nobody got sick, amazingly enough.
5. We went to a local fair and sampled hot dogs and watched a relay race.
6. We saved the trip to the dino museum for a rainy day and ate hamburgers at the original restaurant in New Haven CT – Louis’s Lunch.
7. We broke open new tubs of Play Dough and spent the day making clay objects.
8. My hubby found two “old-fashioned” board games at a thrift shop and we enjoyed “Twister” and “Monopoly” until the wee hours of the morning.
9. We splurged on a two-hour drive to a town we had never been to and explored the many shops on their Main Street.
10. The kids especially loved miniature golfing and ice cream treats.

Those were 10 of the memorable adventures that summer. Oh and I almost forgot, we went to our local library and participated in their summer reading contest. I started reading Mary Higgins Clark books!

Try Staycating (not sure if that’s a word!) it’s fun!

MaryBeth