Home is where vacation starts

Spring vacation has officially begun. The forecast calls for half a week of rain. As if that should be any surprise at all. I'll bet the sun shines all week long in Florida.

Unlike their peers, the boys will be having what I like to call a Staycation Week. In other words, we aren't going anywhere. More specifically, we aren't going to run into half of the town on Main Street, USA in Disney World because we don't fall into the group of families who have the privilege of going there for what seems to be their annual tradition. In fact, we have yet to even get there, but someday we will. They say someday never comes, but it does. Eventually, someday.

No, we will make the best of the week off not boarding yellow buses to and from school, and getting to play outside longer because we have no homework, seeking out the friends who are on Staycation like we are.

But we have something to look forward to, yes we do. If you ask 6-year-old Jeffrey if he has plans for his vacation week, he will stand tall, put his hands in his pockets and state, "No, we aren't going anywhere for vacation." (Emphasis on the word 'anywhere'.) "But in July, we're going to South America!"

So there, all you Florida frequenters. How many of you are going to go to South Carolina America in July?