Happy unofficial start of summer!
Today’s dreamy Postcard from Bunchland comes from veteze.com in Muskoka.
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Mama Megan
Megan Pettit shares stories from a new mom
The long weekend was ideal to head to the cottage for the first time this year. The weather was perfect, the traffic wasn’t bad and I even got out of school early on Thursday. Yup, just kicking back by the lake with some BBQ, drinks and a toddler.
One of those things doesn’t belong at the cottage.
It was around 11pm when we arrived and Jr. had been sleeping in the car for an hour. I left a scroll of a to-do and to-bring list for my husband and he remembered everything except the Pack ‘n Play. We thought it wouldn’t be a big deal since our offspring is such a great sleeper. We were wrong.
Camp Bunchland
A family round of board games is a cottage tradition
Has your family cottage trip ever included a rousing round of board games? The shouting as the competition gets intense, the pitting of half the family against the other, maybe the odd accusation of cheating. It’s the perfect kind of unplugged fun, and if your cottage is anything like ours you have a stack of dusty old games piled in a corner, ready to be pulled out on a rainy day or after dinner.
Or maybe a closet full of them like in The Royal Tenenbaums. Swoon.
While your family may be perfectly happy playing that beat-up old box of Pictionary summer after summer, consider adding some new and still completely awesome board games into the mix. We got our friend Randal, owner of Toronto’s Toy Space/board game expert extraordinaire to talk about his must-have games. Here are his top five.
Retro
Vintage photos and candid quotes to help you wax nostalgic about the cottage
Photo via y3110w
When you remember your kid self up at the family cottage all those summers ago, what do you picture? Are you sprawled across a hammock in the shade with a Judy Blume book resting on your stomach? Digging for pieces of sea glass in the sand and carefully cleaning them off so they shine like precious jewels? Listening, wide-eyed, as one of your parents tells an old ghost story around the campfire with melted chocolate and marshmallows smeared all over your face?
We’ve rounded up our readers’ favourite memories and retro cottage photos, so if you’re aiming to make this summer the one that your kids remember forever and ever (and tell their own kids about), look no further for inspiration than the halycon days of your own childhood.
