Vacation Haven Rentals is a family owned business launched January 2016.  Although, renting a vacation property is not new to us, we have had 5 years renting one of our cottages, we are excited about our new venture renting our newest property in Mazatlan, Mexico.  Vacation is important to us and our family.   We have now combined vacation rental properties with my denim beach accessories that I have been asked many times over the past 10 years to sew for others. 

We dared to be different, not follow tradition to see where it would lead us. One Christmas, we decided to travel somewhere warm as opposed to exchanging presents. It was a life changing experience. It was expensive as we are foster parents and have many children, whom travel with us.  The following year, we chose to travel without our children. When we came home, our youngest child who was 7 at the time confronted us to ask why they had not travelled in a year and what was going on. We explained that travelling each year as a family was too expensive. They all agreed to contribute some of their allowance, which I decided their age plus a "0" was their contribution as well as saving their own spending money. We chose to also make other sacrifices such as eliminating meals out and cutting back on birthday parties. That 2005. As a result of that first trip, we began to cook together, which was a great bonding experience for us and our children. Many of them are now are adults, and are great cooks. They can also budget money.  

We still vacation every winter with our children.   We spend anywhere from 1 to 3 weeks on vacation during the winter with most of our children.  We have traveled extensively throughout the Caribbean, Canada and the United Sates.  Our most recent trip was to Mazatlan, which we drove from Winnipeg with our children.