To me, a family vacation is about escaping from my household routines and spending time with my family. It’s about spending time in the moment, not living on a schedule, and of course, eating way too much ice cream. Before school started, we decided to take our boys to Mission Point Resort on Mackinac Island [...]
Now that summer is here, we’re all looking for ways to keep our kids busy without breaking the bank. I love our area museums, but have you seen the admission prices? Once you add in parking, a snack and a gift, it’s a budget buster. Luckily there are three programs to help us keep everyone occupied within [...]
Labor Day 2010. It was unseasonably cool and breezy that morning, making our plan to enjoy one last day at the local pool seem less appealing. What should we do with our last day of summer, we wondered. My husband grinned: “Three magic words come to mind,” he said. “Let’s go shopping,” I ventured. Uh, no. “Kane. [...]
I looked at the calendar this morning and realized that I had to tear off the month of July. August is already here? Wait a minute, Memorial Day was just yesterday! My mother-in-law warned me about this. “When the kids become teens, the days will go by in a flash,” she said. She told me this when [...]
The house was too quiet. You really missed the commotion. The pile of laundry was half its normal size. The grocery bills were no longer helping finance the national debt. Sleep filled nights were the norm, not having to stay awake until the wee hours, waiting for them to return. Then, before you knew it, [...]
One of the things about living here is we tend to wax poetically about all the simple joys of summer. We talk about spending time outside, enjoying the warm weather and smelling the summer flowers. We talk about taking bike rides and swimming for hours. It’s about this point in the summer season that I wonder where those [...]
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