Day 15: Vacations

Going on holidays, long or short is another fun way to add up to the memory bank of fun memories. I have heard of families that plan purposely , holidays at the beginning of the year. That way the families are sure that they are making it priority to spend relaxed fun times with the family and the busyness of a hectic normal routine doesn't jeopardise that . We haven't gone on trips , excluding our India trip after David was born. But that is completely normal when you have just had a baby recently. But when Benjamin, our oldest was born I remember we went camping to a christian conference in the UK when he was just 4 months old. And in his first year we went visiting friends in Edinburg , Scotland , Norway, Brugge in Belgium(when he was a month old). We also made our annual India trip. I don't think we travelled like that with Elijah. I guess we got lazy and blamed it on having two boys .Well, more travel and fun definitely in the process when David is a little bit older.

Here are a few fun way to save a holiday memory;

1. Every time you are on vacation, find a smooth stone or pebble and write a memory from that trip, place and year. Add to the collection of other rocks in a clear jar.
   
   
   
   
   
   
2. Get a wooden box , decorate it with travel signs, family name. Choose the best photo from that trip and put it in the box.
3. Make a phonebook online with all memories from a holiday, or a scrapbook with tickets, keepsake finds from the trip.
4. I think it would be really cool to have one big book for all our adventures. Dedicate one page per trip. Imagine how wonderful it will be to have a collection of all the wonderful adventures in one book. I think this is completely doable and takes the pressure off scrapbooking madness and other time consuming ideas.
5. We also mark on our large sized map in our play room with a red dot of all the places we have visited. Having Europe as our backyard makes it fun especially when Germany, Belgium are just 1 hour away from Eindhoven , The Netherlands.  (I couldn't find my phone to take a picture of our map, so here is a stolen on from the internet, but it just shows the U.S)