our family staycation

I've been introduced to a new word. Staycation. It's another one of those fun-to-say words like freegan that people will turn and look at you like 'what are you talking about, crazy lady.' (I love these words!) Though we dreamed of beaches, restaurants and fancy hotels, our budget well, just couldn't budget a vacation.



A staycation is almost exactly how we spent our Memorial Day weekend, we didn't stay home, but we stayed at my parents in Decorah, Iowa (which my husband would argue many people would actually 'vacation' in Decorah). The staycation was beautiful.

We took our first bike ride of the season. 23 miles, which proved to be a little much for Wyatt who cried at the top of his lungs for 3 of those. I dressed my poor children in matching green striped shirts and had their pictures taken formally and then not so formally (umm, by me as you can see in the sidebar). I'm still perplexed why I wasn't able to walk right by that t-shirt table at Target as I am soo not a matching children kind of mother. We watched a 15 minute parade on Memorial Day. We, meaning husband and parents, ate ice cream at a lovely shop (should I say shoppe) since neither of my children eat ice cream (well, Wyatt would if I let a 13 month old eat ice cream). We played in the park. We rode in the convertible.

Overall, I would say that it was a great staycation. Total price of our staycation = $172.36. Obviously for this anti-supermom, my children's fond memories of a vacation aren't exactly priceless.