We have been in our RV for seven months now. A couple of months we were in Austin but from October to January we were on the road. That is Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years all on the road. That is also time away from family and friends. Has it been hard? Yes. But, have we been together creating new memories? Also yes.
We are planning our next trip to the west coast and expect to be gone from May 2021 until early 2022. When telling our family the plan, they were hurt and upset. We aren’t trying to stay away from anyone, but you can’t travel from Washington to Texas pulling a travel trailer with four kids on a weekend to come home just for holidays. There are always airports, facetime calls, etc.
For Halloween, we didn’t get to do a traditional trick or treating knocking on doors to get candy. But, we did get our kids dressed up in costumes and do a scavenger hunt, where they had clues at different spots around the RV park with bags of candy for each of them. They thought it was super fun and people who saw me hiding candy in a palm tree probably thought I was crazy, but anything for the kids…right?
For Thanksgiving, we were with family that we rarely get to see, so that was nice to be around people we knew. I did actually want to cook Thanksgiving in our RV and see how creative we could get, but maybe next time! (haha)
For Christmas, Zach’s parents flew into where we were going to be and spent Christmas with us. It was a very nice treat for our kids to be with their grandparents. They stayed in a hotel room and we ordered food to go and ate together in the hotel lobby. They had carried all the kid’s presents and ours on the plane and had everything laid out for them in their room. We were incredibly surprised at what they were able to bring. They even managed to fly with a new YETI cooler for us! Talk about commitment.
No matter what your situation, just remember that holidays are a time to be with the people or animals that make you feel at home. Just be in the moment with them, even if that is on the road, hundreds of miles from ‘home’, and your Christmas tree is 1 foot tall.
How do you create traditions with your family on the road? What do your holidays look like?
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