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Family Gap Year Post #9: A Plan Takes Shape
Trying to plan a Family Gap Year during an international health crisis is quite a trip (pun intended).
A tentative plan is taking shape. None of this has been 100% confirmed at work, but you know I like to plan, even when it’s not 100% certain! Here are the details in case you are interested:
- Matt and I would keeping renting out this house. We have had a tenant in that house for more than a year now, and she wants to stay.
- Starting in June, we would rent out the house we are living in. Our neighborhood has an HOA that prohibits short-term rentals, so we will find
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Epic Road Trip: What We’re Thinking About
In the last podcast that Katherine and I recorded (getting released tomorrow), we talk about plans for our vacations this year. Planning for that episode gave me the idea that my family should go on an epic road trip this summer. Like for the entire month of June!
Matt and I went on an epic road trip when I was pregnant with Henry. And Henry, Tate, and I traveled from Austin to Indiana road-trip-style several years ago. We drove for 2-3 hours a day and then did something fun in each city. We have also done single day road trips to save money on airline tickets, like driving to see … Read More
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Staycation: A Good Time for All
In my most recent newsletter, I mentioned that we were heading to the YMCA Snow Mountain Ranch for Spring Break in Colorado. And then a Snowpocalypse threatened the area and we had to cancel our plans at the last-minute. I put in a valiant effort to find an AirBnB somewhere else (South Padre Island, Galveston, Wimberley, rural Louisiana, Arkansas, etc.). But in the end we opted for a Staycation.
I went back to my own advice about how to plan a meaningful and memorable Staycation.
Our Staycation Week
- We decided to stock up on junk food that we don’t normally eat. Doritos. Ruffles with onion dip. Pringles. Candy. Fanta.