How I went down the rabbit hole of looking at pictures of last spring breaks is a mystery but here we are.
Spring break holds a special place in my heart. As a teacher it’s a guaranteed week off, at least. A vacation or a staycation, it is an excellent opportunity to set your head on straight after January, February and March. Over my 20+years of teaching I have used spring breaks in a variety of ways: international travel, resting at home, spring cleaning, reading, meeting friends, and overall catching up on life. Length wise, spring breaks is usually about seven to ten days.
In below recaps I mainly reflected on where we went and 1 to 2 specific memories from that time.
Spring break of 2020 I do not remember. I am sure we must have had one but it was all a scary blur.
Spring break of 2021 we did not take any trips but I remember L and I did a bunch of local adventures, such as picking tulips at a New Jersey farm, taking a Staten Island ferry to NYC, and other local adventures. R was just over a year old.
Spring break of 2022 was my first adventure- a road trip- with both kids. R was two and L was a little over four years old. We went to Maine, my husband’s home state. Lived at a friend’s Airbnb, visited grandma and uncle Brandon, and explored Acadia national park. I specifically remember that I was in the middle of my three month experiment with Julia Cameron’s morning pages, and I would wake up at 4:30-5, and sit and write and listen to Maine wildlife slowly reawaken. A beautiful memory.
Spring break of 2023 we went to Denmark. My sister-friend H is Danish so she hooked us up with a lot of information about Copenhagen and the surrounding areas. I have great memories from that place; I remember I felt perfectly safe there with two young kids, and also how awfully clean it was.
Spring break of 2024 was Paris. I also have great memories from that place. Naturally, overtime the shitty memories recede and the good ones stay with you. When the train station was flooded and R stepped right into the puddle and soaked his shoes and pants, it wasn’t funny then. But now I wistfully think back to that situation with sort of “oh well… kids.”
I remember after seeing French parents give their small kids a piece of baguette or a croissant while they were in the stroller – to shut them up apparently- heck, it worked!
Spring break of 2025 is a road trip to the Outer Banks via Chincoteague, VA and PA on our way back.
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