Staycation: vacation spent at home or nearby
Vacations will be canceled for a lot of people this year due to all the changes and uncertainty. Our family decided to postpone all travel plans until next year.
This doesn’t mean the quality time we planned to spend with our family will not happen. We’ll still plan for time away from our normal schedules to have fun and take some time to restore ourselves.
Here’s how I’m planning our family’s staycation:
- Determine target dates for time off work and school. This has been a moving target lately; so I’m using dates based on what I’ve been told so far and will adjust as updates come my way.
- Ask everyone what’s on their bucket list for this year.
- Use the list to find creative ways to bring that experience to your home. For example, if someone wants to go to Paris find a popular dish and cook it together. If someone wants to go to the beach, create the experience in your backyard with cocktails/mocktails, music, lunch outdoors, and water games.
- Set ground rules, such as no electronics, no fighting, no working.
- Have a theme for each night (i.e. movie night, game show night, music night, etc.)
- Plan at the minimum to spend lunch and dinner together; leave plenty of room for people to relax and do nothing. Just like you would on a normal vacation.
