The kids and I are on Spring Break this week. For many years our Spring Breaks did no coincide but for the last few years they have. I personally don’t like having Spring Break this early in the year – I would absolutely prefer to have it in mid to late April, especially since we get a week off in February. But teachers don’t get to pick when they get their breaks so here we are. While I’m very thankful for some time off, I know it’s going to be a LONG ten weeks of school before summer.
Saturday my son and I went to the dojo. My husband picked up my son and got him ready for a trip to the zoo with a friend, while I stayed for a later sparring session. By the time I got home, my son was already on his way. My daughter was still at her grandparents’ house so my husband and I got to spend a couple of hours alone, which was nice. Both our daughter and son came home around 5pm, and a little later we started a movie. My daughter and husband went to see Charlie XCX at the Fox Theater in Oakland while my son and I stayed home.
{I went to A LOT of concerts with my dad in high school and college and I cherish those memories. I am VERY excited that my husband and daughter are continuing the tradition.}
Yesterday I was supposed to take a walk with a friend (but it got postponed), then my family and I went going to this 9-hole wizarding-themed mini-golf thing downtown. (We were supposed to see a Cal Baseball game but rain is forecast for this afternoon so we decided to change course.) Afterward my son’s friend came over to play some video games and have dinner while my daughter played video games with her friend over FaceTime.
Today my son is at my in-law’s house while my daughter’s friend is over. This afternoon my in-laws will drop my son off at the dojo and I’ll take the girls to boxing. I will pick my son up from the dojo and another mom will pick up the girls from boxing (making afternoon activities work is complicated even during the breaks!) My husband has a regular work day.
Tomorrow I’m using a family pass my son was given after a field trip to take the kids to the Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park. It’s really expensive to go there, and now that I can’t get both kids in on a teacher pass I don’t by one anymore and we really don’t go there much, if at all. We’re all excited to get to go again. Again my husband has a regular work day.
On Wednesday my husband leaves really early for a work trip to DC. I’ll be taking my son’s soccer and school mate (they aren’t really friends) to a playground with my son for a little while to help his mom out. In the afternoon my daughter will be at her friend’s house while my son and I are at the dojo.
On Thursday morning I’m taking the kids down to my parents’ house for a couple of nights. This is partly because it’s nice to have back up when my husband is gone, but mostly I just want to spend some time with them and this seems like as good a week as any to do that. We may hit up Great America on Saturday (we have season passes), but we’ll see. Otherwise we don’t have much planned for that time with them, except of course to decorate cookies and dye eggs.
By Saturday night we’ll be back at home and Sunday we’ll just be hanging out, getting ready to go back to school. It’s a very low key Spring Break, but it’s what I can handle right now. We don’t leave town much (if at all) during the school year and sometimes it feels like we are the only ones who don’t take advantage of the breaks to travel. The fact that I also get those weeks off make me feel even lamer for not doing much. But honestly, we never seem to have the money for it, and I never seem to have the energy for it. I guess I can only hand one or two trips in the summer and that is it…
Do you travel a lot between August and June?
I hear ya on not having the money for it or the energy for it when it comes to going out of town for school breaks. We never go anywhere for the reasons stated above. I n addition is too hard for me to plan all this while working 40 hours a week and taking care of a family and home. And everyone at my work always takes either Spring Break or Christmas break off (even though they are childless but that is a whole other rant) so really it would be impossible anyway. Enjoy the time off
We aren’t going anywhere either this year. Too hectic with a move coming up!
I like to travel…but it wears me out. I need a lot of downtime in between adventures and am a real introvert/homebody.
I’m also frugal and do start to feel panicked if we have too many things planned because regardless of how much I plan and do things economically, it also ends up costing a fair amount of money.
We do have a trip planned in May and in June to see family that we haven’t seen since pre-COVID, but that’s very, very unusual for us!
I’m glad you get some time at home but it doesn’t sound exactly like downtime. Sounds very very busy and complex. I hope you end the week feeling refreshed. It does look like a long run til summer.
Good wishes!