Smells Like Vacation

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“Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn’t developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don’t expect to see.” – unknown

I love words. Use them all the time. But every once in a while, something happens to remind me that perhaps I’m using too many.

The other day my kids and I were driving an hour to get to the Washington State Fair. It wasn’t a vacation, or bay-cation as Mr. D says, but it was a special day. And my kids are great in the car – they generally get along and are happy to be there.

So, there we were, sunnily driving down the road. Mr. D, who Vicki (from the Victoria Ponders blog and my partner on the HoTM blog and podcast) refers to as a poet, pipes up from the back seat,

“I can smell bay-cation. It smells like orange mixed with rainbow.”

What do your vacations smell like?

If you are going on a road trip or just want some great listening around the house, check out the Sharing the Heart of the Matter podcast with author and blogger Pete Springer on our latest episode: Episode 36: They Call Me Mom with Pete Springer

41 thoughts on “Smells Like Vacation”

  1. Vicki has it right. “Orange mixed with rainbow” is a more poetic phrase than most of us will utter in a lifetime. Well, I guess he has chosen his vocation, or he has been chosen for it.

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  3. “Orange mixed with rainbow” – I love it! Mr. D. definitely has the gift of words, Wynne. Our vacations are so different from each other that they don’t really have a smell. I suppose a beach vacation would be “sand mixed with sunscreen”, and a cottage vacation would be “campfire mixed with bug spray”. Just typing this makes me smile! Thank you Mr. D.

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  8. Don’t you just love the way kids see, hear and smell the important things in their world, and what truly makes an impression on them! When younger, we were a beach or forest family so perhaps my smells would be salt and warm coconut or pine and raindrops.

    When you mentioned the fair I instantly smelled onions. Happens all the time. That smell permeated my world as a kid since we lived just 1 block from the fair 🙂

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    1. Pine and raindrops – that’s poetic, Deb. I love it. The warm coconut surprises me – makes me think of that tanning oil we used to put on when we were young.

      And onions from the fair – that’s so interesting. I think they say the olfactory memory is one of the strongest, right? ❤ ❤ ❤

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  14. Nature provokes children into thought, action, and formulating their own ideas. When children are involved in experiences with nature, they are absorbed and completely attentive to what is at hand.

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  19. Our get-a-way is of course the lake house and the first big sniff smells like rot, mold, dampness. Maybe a dead fish or two. It’s a lake and sadly I’ve grown to love that smell. Please no unnecessary judgments. Unlike our dog Shaggy, I prefer not to roll in dead fish, and I’m quite well behaved in the car. So there’s that. Hugs, C

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