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Vacations/Holidays - 7/12/2008 10:06:27 PM
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Prairiehiker
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How do you, as singles, or single parents, spend your holidays?
Are there things/places that you would want to do or visit but are hesitant to because you are single?
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RE: Vacations/Holidays - 7/12/2008 10:21:02 PM
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Grace-N-Mercy
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Generally, I treat the holidays as just a "day off" unless family & friends have something planned. I don't mind going to activities alone... I'm accustomed to doing things alone. (Of course, it would be much more fun to have a boyfriend to do things with...) Vacations... again, I don't mind doing things alone. The past two years, I've traveled to the mountains in the Fall just to see the changing of the seasons. I take safety precautions, of course, but if I really want to do something I do it. I don't let my singleness hold me back from anything.
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RE: Vacations/Holidays - 7/12/2008 10:53:49 PM
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Prairiehiker
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I've never spent any holidays or vacations without my daughter. Holidays are just a normal day off for me which means we get to stay in bed a little longer then head off to the beach or the hit the trail or the slope in the winter.
We've taken yearly vacations and we go on a trip for a couple of weeks, usually to the mountains. Now that she's getting older (11), I think she wants to just stay in the city so she can hang out with her friends, which makes me a bit sad. But I guess it's part of child raising. This year might be our last trip until she's a bit older and wants to hang out with mom and I'm trying to make it a little more memorable.
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O Lord my God, When I in awesome wonder,
Consider all the worlds Thy Hands have made;
I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder
Thy power through out the universe displayed
How great Thou art, How great Thou art.
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RE: Vacations/Holidays - 7/13/2008 9:40:05 AM
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ebony101
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I'm glad to have stuff to do. It's the not doing anything that's unbearable. But one or two days to laze around & sleep late is much appreciated.
So far, I haven't had to go overseas by myself, other singles who enjoy travelling usually accompany me. So God has been good thus far.
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RE: Vacations/Holidays - 7/13/2008 10:49:12 PM
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I just finished a week's vacation and - despite the extra, unnecessary garbage dumped on us by my ex-SIL's malice - I managed to spend a significant amount of it working. That's right, I worked. I did the job God made me for, that I am suited to, for which I have a passion, and which I can't find an hour a week to do when I'm working.
The day I retire, I go back to doing real work, full time; the day I retire I become a full-time writer.
< Message edited by 9drtr -- 7/13/2008 11:07:25 PM >
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RE: Vacations/Holidays - 8/3/2008 9:04:19 PM
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I have a few friends that I enjoy hanging out with. We go on hunting trips and campping And sometimes I just off by myself. I dont let the fact I am single stop me from doing what I enjoy.
Sometime I do wish I had someone to share it with but just the same I am going to enjoy life as it comes....... 
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RE: Vacations/Holidays - 8/3/2008 10:28:52 PM
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humbleinspirit
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My Holidays I tend to spend locally. When I am on vacation I usually try to visit another city and perhaps meet up with someone there also.
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RE: Vacations/Holidays - 8/4/2008 12:09:54 AM
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FunBetty
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I typically take my vacations to see family. Visiting my parents actually includes working at Disney (which is fun enough to count as vacation) and visiting with friends.
Last year I took my first "non-family visit" vacation, and it was so nice. A real vacation!!
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RE: Vacations/Holidays - 8/4/2008 1:55:57 AM
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I always just vacation with my mother. She's my best friend anyways. :o)
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RE: Vacations/Holidays - 8/4/2008 9:15:48 AM
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My vacation/holidays are spent with family. If my brother or cousin want to see me and the younger kids, they will send for us, otherwise we stay at home, sleep in, and go to the beach.
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RE: Vacations/Holidays - 8/4/2008 9:55:32 AM
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What's a vacation? 
I haven't been on a "real" vacation since 1997. Seriously. I travel with the quartet, of course, which is great fun, but it's hard work, so it's not really a vacation.
Holidays now are Mom and myself and some of them include our alto and bass singer, who are like my brother and sister after almost 6 years. It's nice to have some adopted family.
Otherwise, we just hang and go out to eat somewhere.
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RE: Vacations/Holidays - 8/4/2008 11:30:54 AM
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i do the family thing with my daughter just as i always have ... i haven't done a big weeklong vacation alone with my daughter yet, instead breaking it up into a few days here and there ... i'm more into day trips being single, things to do with friends or youth group ...
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RE: Vacations/Holidays - 8/4/2008 3:08:41 PM
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Blazingson
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Today is National Mustard Day and I would love to go to the Mutard Day celebration in Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin but that wouldn't be any fun alone. So for my next vacation I'll probably just pack my gear on my horse and camp out in the mountains and do a little hunting.
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RE: Vacations/Holidays - 8/4/2008 3:16:49 PM
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offtheisland
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ORIGINAL: Blazingson
Today is National Mustard Day and I would love to go to the Mutard Day celebration in Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin but that wouldn't be any fun alone. So for my next vacation I'll probably just pack my gear on my horse and camp out in the mountains and do a little hunting.
What happens at a Mustard Day celebration?
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RE: Vacations/Holidays - 8/4/2008 9:33:34 PM
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Blazingson
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ORIGINAL: offtheisland
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ORIGINAL: Blazingson
Today is National Mustard Day and I would love to go to the Mutard Day celebration in Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin but that wouldn't be any fun alone. So for my next vacation I'll probably just pack my gear on my horse and camp out in the mountains and do a little hunting.
What happens at a Mustard Day celebration?
The same thing that happens at strawberry festivals, watermelon festivals or pork producers jamborees. They have fun and consume mustard in any form and on anything they can think of.
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Matthew 5:16
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
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RE: Vacations/Holidays - 8/4/2008 9:43:21 PM
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I am taking a two week vacation starting Wednesday. I am going to a baseball tournament for 6 days. I intend to watch 30 games in 6 days. My sister and BIL will be there part of the time. The rest of the time I will be resting.
I have already taken two extended weekend trips this year to meet other posters.
I also have a couple of trips scheduled for the fall.
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RE: Vacations/Holidays - 8/4/2008 10:33:14 PM
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trinigirl722
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Most of my vacations consist of going home to visit my family (who live several states away).
We have great fun, but I would really like to go on vacations to new places with friends. Unfortunately, none of my friends are potential travel companions -- they are either married and vacation with their families or just aren't interested in taking a trip together. The closest I've come to vacations with friends is going to visit friends who've moved away.
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RE: Vacations/Holidays - 8/5/2008 10:03:31 PM
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Onecontent
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I try to take a week to be with my parents in the spring and I go on a non-family vacation in the fall. For the past couple of years I have gone on discount cruises by myself but with the price of fuel I do not see that as an option this year unless I become desperate.
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RE: Vacations/Holidays - 8/6/2008 8:25:25 AM
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offtheisland
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quote:
ORIGINAL: Blazingson
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ORIGINAL: offtheisland
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ORIGINAL: Blazingson
Today is National Mustard Day and I would love to go to the Mutard Day celebration in Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin but that wouldn't be any fun alone. So for my next vacation I'll probably just pack my gear on my horse and camp out in the mountains and do a little hunting.
What happens at a Mustard Day celebration?
The same thing that happens at strawberry festivals, watermelon festivals or pork producers jamborees. They have fun and consume mustard in any form and on anything they can think of.
I am curious....mustard in any form? What kind of forms? I like mustard, and have not had the opportunity to explore other ways to consume mustard except by adding the powder or squeezing it on food.
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My heart is steadfast, O God; I will sing and make music with all my soul.
Psalm 108:1
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RE: Vacations/Holidays - 8/6/2008 3:03:43 PM
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Blazingson
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quote:
ORIGINAL: offtheisland
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ORIGINAL: Blazingson
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ORIGINAL: offtheisland
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ORIGINAL: Blazingson
Today is National Mustard Day and I would love to go to the Mutard Day celebration in Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin but that wouldn't be any fun alone. So for my next vacation I'll probably just pack my gear on my horse and camp out in the mountains and do a little hunting.
What happens at a Mustard Day celebration?
The same thing that happens at strawberry festivals, watermelon festivals or pork producers jamborees. They have fun and consume mustard in any form and on anything they can think of.
I am curious....mustard in any form? What kind of forms? I like mustard, and have not had the opportunity to explore other ways to consume mustard except by adding the powder or squeezing it on food.
When I say in any form, I mean, "Mustard of any imaginable flavor." There are mustards flavored with beer, wine and liquors of every type. Flavored with every herb, spice, fruit, and vegetable available. There are whole grain, course and smooth mustards, hot mustards, sweet mustards, mustards with nuts and honey, brown sugar, maple syrup. There are mustards made from different types of mustard seeds; yellow brown or black. The darker the seed the hotter the flavor. There mustards mixed for use on sandwiches, meats and even for use as dessert sauces. And there are mustards available from nearly every country on the planet. I'll admit that I'm a little weird where mustard is concerned.
Check out www.mustardweb.com. The website for the Mt. Horeb Mustard Museum.
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