WE try to make at least one trip in a year, be it local or far.
Spending quality time with family has been always the highest priority for me, because I know, these are the moments that will not only cherish our later part of life, but also remind these kids these great times that we spent together, when they are grown up. And since we are going through a phase when kid's education is high priority, we try to make small trips nearby inside our state, which spans over 2-4 days. May be once these kids are grown up, we will have more frequent trips as everyone in my family loves to travel. Travel not only de-congests ourselves from the busy schedule but going to scenic places refresh us with all positive energies and enables us to do more work. The last time we visited outside was to Kashmir which was two years back after my son's 10th board. During these visits, I always make sure to collect lot of photos as those memoirs are valuable than anything else, I am yet to post all of them. This particular photo is from our recent trip to Satapada after Dad's hospitalization and I must say that this trip brought me back to normal state, after getting too much stressed during the ten day hospital stay.
And then apart from my own family, I also take Mom on religious trips almost every year, to motivate her for a positive living. Having a goal of visiting one place every year sets some target for us, and given that her movement is getting restricted day by day ( due to age factors), I plan more relaxed and focused trip for her, with me accompanying her everywhere and making sure she avails best of the facilities and personal care. After all, the money that we earn is worth spending for our living first, especially for our parents who gave up all their comfort and went through lot of hardship to make us what we are today. Unfortunately Dad has not been very interested to travel at all, as he traveled lot of places alone during his college time. So we leave Dad at my home, with my family taking care of him, providing peace of mind during our travel and I must say, it's a great support as a family. When Dad was fit, I took both Mom and Dad to many places in the Southern part of India, as I was staying in Bangalore during that time. May be I will post about them someday, back then I had an Olympus camera and I have a big treasure of their memoirs from those places, which Mom loves to see often.
Having a mindset to travel to places, organizing the trip in a planned way is my preferred approach always, as I don't like surprises. Hopefully, we will have more frequent trips after my daughter's board is over - until then small trips for my immediate family and religious trips for Mom has been set as a tradition since last few years.
This post is in response to the The Silverbloggers Chronicles - Prompt #24 - Family holiday traditions.
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