If you’re staying around West Michigan for spring break, we have you covered. Here are some fun activities happening right in your own backyard over the next few weeks.
Below are links to the fun Spring Break spots shown in segment:
15 year old Katie Hollstein has some fun and creative ways to spend spring break at home. Watch the segment and check out her instructions below for cake pops and homemade flower headbands.
With spring break, comes loads of time in the sun. Experts at Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital urge people to think twice before hitting the tanning bed before your vacation.
This past week, a group of Calvin College students headed down to Louisiana to spend their spring break helping others.
If you’re looking for an inexpensive day trip to the Lakeshore over spring break, think the Holland Aquatic Center.
In the coming weeks many high school seniors will be heading south for spring break unsupervised. Do you trust your teenager to go alone?
Spring Break 2011 is right around the corner and this weekend on “Where You Live” we’re giving you everything you need to know to make Spring Break super fun for your family! Find out what special events are taking place at some of West Michigan’s favorite family fun hot spots like Craig’s Cruisers, The John Ball Zoo, the West Michigan Whitecaps, The Holland Aquatic Center and Celebration Cinema! Plus, clever crafts and tasty treats to try at home. Plus, we’re giving away a great prize-it’s from my friends at Culture Pass GR and it’s an overnight stay at a local Holiday Inn Express, a gift card to Cinco de Mayo and great discounts at over 20 cultural organizations! And a huge BONUS—check out my Facebook page (facebook.com/marandatv) every day during Spring Break because we’re giving away amazing PRIZES everyday including tickets to Opening Day at Fifth Third Ball Park, Family Fun Packs to Craig’s Cruisers and the Holland Aquatic Center, tickets to the Grand Rapids Ballet’s Spring Break show and more!!! We truly are your headquarters for everything you need to make Spring Break in West Michigan super fun for your family!!
I’ll admit that I’m dragging a bit this week. I just returned from a trip out to Seattle —so add a three hour time difference plus daylight savings time and this equals the need for some major sleep catch up now that I’m back in Michigan! Getting away and exploring this awesome city was wonderful but the primary reason I was in Seattle was to attend a practical and useful training on a particular method of therapy. Even though this therapy is specifically for couples, I walked away with some insights that may brighten and strengthen your family life as well.
At this training, and in a book that I just finished and highly recommend (The Intentional Family), the importance of building family connection and closeness was emphasized. The word that is commonly used with this process is ritual. A ritual is something in family life that is meaningful, is repeated, and is coordinated with other family members. Developing rituals of connection add many important things to family life, including:
“What shall we have for dinner?” This is the constant cry of the housewife, who often feels that housekeeping would be relieved of one of its greatest bugbears if someone else would undertake the planning of the meals.
Feeding the Family, Second Edition; Mary Swartz Rose, 1924.
This 1924 book was given to me by my mother-in-law after she found it in her mother’s attic several years ago. It was fun to turn the fragile pages and look at the meal planning tips and food costs from the 1920’s. Did you know two jars of peanut butter could be purchased for 25 cents? What was not surprising to me, was the way meal planning and preparation was described – as a time consuming, difficult chore! A lot has changed over the past 8 decades but not the way most women think about fixing meals.
Starting this week I will begin a series of blogs looking at meal planning and providing solutions that are easy, affordable and healthy. I will start with my top 2 super easy dinner meals. These are my “go to” meals when I have very little time for cooking.
I keep frozen ravioli in the freezer and always have pasta sauce and green salads on hand for this meal.
These burritos can be prepared with the beans and cheese and then everyone can add thier own toppings. Canned black beans and leftover chicken or beef can also be used.
What are your family’s favorite easy meals? Share them with me so we can all learn to tackle meal time together!
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