Disclosure: As a Pearachute ambassador, I sometimes question my good fortune to be able to share our favorite Chicagoland adventures, all using this simple yet brilliant app. Although I’m being compensated, all thoughts, opinions, and sun-freckled children are entirely my own.
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Oh, friends. TGISummerVacationFinallyFinallyFINALLY.
I am so massively in love with lazy(ish) mornings spent reading in our jammies, quiet hours building sand castles at the beach (pre-lunch crowd), and lounge-y afternoons spent poking around backyards, the parks, and corners of our bedrooms. We putter ’round here, folks.
But we also occasionally, sometimes, just maybe, need a plan. And for that, I am so grateful that we Pearachute. (Yes, still a verb.) Structure is good. Being able to cancel “structure” without a fee is so, so good.
Pearachute is the ultimate summer secret weapon:
Jasper and Susannah crafted to their tiny hearts’ content (and made stained glass “windows!”) at Lillstreet’s superbly popular Li’l Studio one morning this month…and then napped for three hours.
Later that week, Nora and Susannah chose the drop-off Master ARTists at The Paintbrush for a good bit of art history with their creations. (We’ve been hitting the art selections pretty heavily lately, which makes my craft-happy heart so unbelievably happy.)
On my birthday, I signed all three kids up for Open Play at the Chicago Little Beans– and I grabbed a cup of coffee, curled up in a soft chair, and read a book for an hour while they happily played village, dress-up, gas station, and light-up dance party. (Happy birthday to us all!)
Then, Susannah wanted to try a different location’s Stomp & Shout (because she is, above all else, a connoisseur) and- yep- loved the Ravenswood location, too. (Jasper had three distinct phases: joining in for the drumsticks, decidedly NOT joining in for anything else, and very loudly acknowledging the nearby train station.)
The next week? I had planned classes and activities and drop-ins galore…but newly graduated kindergartener Nora (and her sidekick Almost Pre-K Suzy) looked so cozy on the couch with their blanket tent, so I figured that Spanish class could wait another week. Bounce time will one thousand percent be available in the coming days. And canceling classes within the parameter for each activity made for a simple, guilt-free (money loss-free!) way to go with the summertime flow.
How insanely lucky are we?
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And now a refresher of the new plan levels! A 3 pack for $39 (because this is truly a great way to pick n’ choose just a few classes each month!), a 6 pack for $79, and an unlimited plan for $129 are the new offerings- and with each plan, you get to go everywhere. Your artist wants to scale walls next week? Your swimmer have a hankering for story time? What used to be a scheduling (and financial) headache is now oh-so-doable.
But I can do you one better.
If you use the code KEELY at checkout, your first month can look like this: a 3 class plan for $15, a 6 class plan for $30, and an unlimited plan for $50. (Guys, hundreds of activity options for these prices? Ridic.)
Sign up now and join me in creating completely unique (and flexible!) “summer camps” for each child. See you by the drum kit, kiddos!
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