We need our family time. We have always to a degree taken our work home with us. Fifteen years and five kids later, we run a full time gutter cleaning business out of our home as well as a part-time marketing business. We need to get out of the house to accomplish the distraction-free family time! Obviously, I'll write from our personal experience and hopefully many will find it helpful.
Alright, back to the beginning....we didn't have a fancy honeymoon by any means. We went camping- tent camping. Before all the female readers in love with their hair styling products shut me down, let me just say that we didn't stop there. However, let me also say this, what you will find is a thread through all our travels to shut down the distractions and focus on each other. We swam, canoed, fished, played cards, ate burgers and made MEMORIES!
Flash forward a few years, we now have five children that we are home-schooling. What has vacation melded into over the years? We enjoy, (yes enjoy) a good road trip. As our vacation budget has expanded, what we are able to do has changed, Over the years, as we have paid off debts, we have put our increase into retirement (which will be a lot of travel) and trips. A line that has been burned into our brains is something like this, "Money spent on Vacations will grow in Value over time; while people tend to regret money spent of things." We camp a bit less and cruise much more. Cruising has proved to be our biggest bang for the buck. It has allowed us to see and experience things we never thought we could or would when we were daydreaming years ago. This is not to say we don't still enjoy the outdoors- not at all. When we have a few hours, we are so nicely placed in Pa that a hike or canoe trip is easily attained. However, once you experience the beauty of the Caribbean, don't be surprised if you develop the same addiction we did.
