Eric’s mom came to visit us for a week. I call her MomJo. And what do you do when your mother-in-law travels far so she can spend time with us? Well, I don’t know about Mr. Basketmaker, but for me, I took a little hiatus from my freelance work (and my blog if you haven’t noticed) and had a little relaxing vacation at home — otherwise known as a “stay-cay.” (Official definition from Urbandictionary.com: Instead of going somewhere for vacation [vay-cay] when you have time off, you stay where you are [stay-cay] and do the local scene.)
(Another FYI: MIL stands for mother-in-law. In case there are a few of you out there that didn’t know what it stood for!)
As it turned out, the local scene for me turned out to be the front porch off of Mr. Basketmaker’s workshop.
What did I do? Well, before I started my ‘stay-cay’, first, we put her to work…
weeding….
picking herbs….
mowing the lawn….
(Hard to see her through our mini vineyard and the long grass! She’s so tiny!)
Basically we put her to work for about a day so I had I could wrap up some pressing deadlines with my freelance and then relax.
we played monopoly… (two rounds)
(Chance seemed to LOVE the porch stay-cay as well!)
put a large puzzle together…
finished the puzzle…
then went to the store and bought another puzzle and put that together too!
we sat by the fire… (no pic—it was dark out!)
ate good food… (no pic here either… too busy eating the good food!)
ate healthy food too! Brought momJo to my favorite health food cafe and she tried her first “mean green” juice! She said she liked it but I’m not sure if she was just telling me that…
So it was a great week vacationing at home with momJo.
But I got very behind with my work and posting on my blog of course. But it was ALL worth it!
Stay-cays are the best! Sounds like your location is a great place for that!
Well if you get this twice , sorry.. Had it written and did something and it disappeared .. Since you all enjoyed your Opry experience so much, I wanted to make sure you knew about the Bluegrass Series at the Ryman in downtown Nashville . A 6 week series of Bluegrass shows be ginning with Vince Gill opening the series on June 26. Its a great evening. Gwen and Phil have been too . Let me know if you plan to go. Glad you are enjoying TN.
Yes, we heard about the Bluegrass Series. Eric loves bluegrass!! We are planning to go and stay the night in Nashville. I will keep you posted! Thanks Jane!
Thanks, Lynne, for a wonderful vacation. You do so much for me & other people, & of course Eric. Thanks to Eric for the puzzles to do while he worked on a unique basket for his upcoming workshops. Most of all the visiting was the best.
Sweet! Glad you had fun!