We are looking into possibly renting a house down the shore (yes, I really do say "down the shore") for a week next summer....and I was also trying to decide what to do for Thanksgiving. My 19yo dd is coming home for Thanksgiving from college, and I was thinking that it would be fun to go away as a family for a few days.
Somehow those two thoughts - beach house & Thanksgiving vacation morphed together. After getting price info, we decided to go for it and are spending Thanksgiving at the beach!
And it solves the problem of - what are we doing for Thanksgiving? Do we see Rich's relatives? My relatives? Rich's other relatives? Do we invite them all here?
Answer: None of the above - we're taking a family vacation!
Doesn't this place look great?
Wildwood Rentals
Very reasonably priced - in November anyway. It's a small fortune in the middle of summer.
So this is the plan....Rich and I and the kids are going to Newark airport to pick up Sarah on that Tuesday night before Thanksgiving and then driving down to Wildwood. The FUN part is....we aren't telling the kids where we are going! We DID tell them that we are going away, and that it will take us three hours or less to get there.
I also am setting up a few red herrings - I went online to websites for Lancaster, PA, the Poconos, Lake George, NY and am having them send me brochures. The kids are the ones that bring in the mail...
This way if I inadvertently mention something about Wildwood, the shore, etc. they won't know if I really slipped up or if it's another trick.
As far as pregnant moms, I have a mom due November 12 and a mom due November 13. I am hoping they both have their babies by November 20. If they don't, it is 90 minutes from Wildwood to the hospital, and much as I wouldn't want to go to a birth during those days, it is a hang-out-and-spend-time together vacation. It's not like I'd be gone at a birth the whole time, so spending 12 hours or so away at a birth wouldn't be a big deal. My kids would probably be too busy playing video games to even notice I'm gone anyway.
And then I have my doula friend Jess, who is pregnant and due December 1st. I will be her doula and I am hoping she doesn't go a week early, but then again, it's not a big deal to drive back for her birth.
Now of course if the kids somehow find this blog, the jig is up. Unless, of course, this blog is a red herring too....you never know!
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3 comments:
hey! thanx for visiting! your thanksgiving sounds like an awesom time! i'm lucky b/c both my mom and mil live in the same town as me, so we dib;t have too much problem w/ it.
how long have you been a doula? you sound like you're working steadiuy, i so hope the same happens w/ me.
Hi Kris, thanks for stopping by!
I've been a doula for 4 years and just had the privilege of attending my 51st birth!
Hey Dorothy! Wildwood is the best. I went there every summer growing up. Great memories!
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