Baby goes straight from hospital to Florida Leisure vacation home
Earlier this week I received a fantastic email and I thought I’d save it for today as it’s really a lovely way to end the week…and really sends the message home to all of us working for Florida Leisure Vacation Homes why we do what we do…
Baby goes straight from hospital to Florida Leisure vacation home
We thought we were looking for the impossible. To celebrate our 30th
wedding anniversary, we wanted to get our 3 children and their families
to spend a week together in a large home or lodge. They are spread
around the country so many years go by without all of us getting
together. And it gets more difficult – – especially since they keep
giving us more grandchildren, which makes travel even more difficult.
So……….finding a place for all 16 of us to stay for a week under
one roof without stepping on each other would be hard.
Enter Florida Leisure Homes. They provided us with a 6+ bedroom, 4 1/2
bathroom house with a pool, spa, game room, laundry, and plenty of
common space for sharing the good times. To top it all off, the price
was very reasonable and the unit was in excellent condition. Their
staff helped us arrive informed and ready to relax – – there were no
surprises!
The week started out with plenty of excitement as our 3 kids, their
spouses, and our 8 grandkids got reacquainted and the smiles and laughs
broke out. It was fun being able to have the entire group eating,
watching TV, hanging around the pool, or just visiting. In a hotel, we
would have been scattered around in 5 or 6 rooms.
We started visiting nearby Florida vacation attractions on the second
day. The location made finding our destinations easy and we could be
back at the vacation home in time to swim or play games before dinner.
The 8 grandchildren were having so much fun! With so many people in one
house we were concerned that everyone would get stressed out. The
opposite happened – – everyone had more fun and was relaxed because
there were so many activities in the house. In fact, our
daughter-in-law was pregnant and her new baby could obviously sense how
much fun it was on the “outside”. So on the third day of our vacation
our 9th grandchild decided it was time to arrive! Instead of going to
Universal Studios Florida, our son and his wife headed to the hospital.
We took everyone else to Universal – – every time we emerged from a ride
or attraction, we hurriedly dialed the cell phone to find out if the
baby had arrived. At 4pm, grandson Slade popped out and screamed,
“Let’s get back to the vacation house so I can meet my brothers, sister,
and cousins!”
He came straight to the vacation house when he was discharged from the
hospital (going home could wait until the end of the week………).
When he turned three days old, he rode with us to Silver Springs and
spent the day vacationing with his entire family.
This only could have happened in a Florida Leisure
Home…………………..it was a wonderful week!
Dale & Becky Wadding
La Crescent, MN
Congratulations Dale, Becky and Slade. I love the fact Slade is wearing his “Friends Don’t Let Friends Stay In Hotels!” banadana. We all look forward to seeing you all again in the near future and your gift card for sharing this with us and being our “Story of the Month” is on it’s way to you. Fantastic!
