Vacationing with your family when you're a childless aunt to cute little kiddos is hard. You love every second with your nieces and nephews, yet you also want to spend time with their parents. But their parents really want to relax and not hover over the kids all vacation. They want to talk to you! It's great being in demand, but sometimes I just want to color.
One thing I've learned to bring with me are pads of blank paper for each kid and myself. No one should feel limited in their canvas on vacation. Draw and color to your heart's extent! The kids seem to love them and randomly start drawing all day long.
This year I brought these:
Next year, I'm also bringing these:
How about you? What's in your auntie satchel?
Last year I took sand toys. This year I bought boogie boards. Shockingly just playing with me and burying me in the sand were preferred over gifts ;-) What beach is this?
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