Avoiding Spring Break Blues: The Way We Were

Now that we are entering the difficult month of March, the last thing on our minds now as adults is green beer, but it's still a riot for some and I still have fond memories. The real this month is the Tournament and Spring Break. Okay… on the latter, we do have control trying to decide if we will ever tell our kids and parents the truth in a fun nuance of adulthood child shed now that we have made anything out of our lives.

Yeeeessss. The great memories that most of us try to forget. Our Senior Year, seven of us loaded into two cars and headed to Myrtle Beach and had a blast. Thank God we did not have to spend money on accommodations thanks to Jolly Ol’ Saint Dad. Flashback, not blackout. If it is anything now like then, the high schoolers are heading there again for their last year and our younger on a break from school (Fiduciary responsibility warrants trust that I can use ‘our'). One of my dearest friends who were part of the senior beach takeover fabulously with I became reacquainted. The 25-year Page High School Reunion. COVID. Boogers. Ultimately cancelled.

The Scare Actual. What to do with the kids. I spent my time zonked out on a couch watching television raiding the refrigerator into high school and bussin' the parents wide open at the Mall (a little different but not so now). However, I was blessed to have when of age perfect (5-12 years) our day care center in which to run around and play.

For you parents, it’s a well-served break from Break continuing life as you know it. Baby's World DayCare Center was my fairy land in which to do what I desired with other children and my mom not so worried about those attending. Now, I love those ladies so much, I just want to do something all the time for a thankless job (the year before last... Custom Hand Soap in Lumps of Coal (Small recyclable gift bags labeled… COAL) to compliment their small bonuses. Knowing their family's personal endeavors kinda makes me ‘The Princess Diaries 2.’

Otherwise, there can be activities at low or no cost. There's a shift happening as evidenced by stunning site-specific installations soon to be revealed. Visual responses and collaboration will inform the creation of dynamic new works by Heather Gordon inside and outside our space. Opening on March 12, SHIFT HAPPENS expands Greenhill's public art initiative “One Love Response", created and inspired by the “One Love" street mural on Greensboro's North Davie Street.

You could also take from a friend's gilded child birthday success and mural or redesign their room. Either way, it is great activity and less headache and worry over the dreaded ‘What to do'. Just a coat of paint.

However, if you took that lake trip earlier this year when it was fashionable, Do It Again! Water Sports. The Migos, Sit Down. Getting dirty without planning anything always wins. 911… Your kid wants to do something. Go back. Screw it. A reformed Great Wolf Lodger still dreams of high times when he did not have to plan a day for a kid. Swimming pools… movie stars. Okay. The only ones really are those you watch on your laptop while you keep the masterful eye on the little one. A delicate art.

Personal goal. Please beat me in this dream and make life for me that much more difficult. Spring Break X-Rated. We are 40 so now is the time. Take them small on a real vacation. Culture. Art. Real sand. Cliffs from which we don’t jump. And let them as young sponges find their own significance even if it is only that your family is set apart.

Choose a Wonder or a Great piece of life that they have only heard and pictured. The Arc de Triomphe. The Vatican. The Coliseum. The Tower of London. Or screw it… Nickelodeon on Ex-Lax. Punta Cana. Then...Turn it up! Advance.