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title: Creating a Vacation Home Altar for Your Summer Family Trip
description: Creating a Vacation Home Altar for Your Summer Family Trip
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# Creating a Vacation Home Altar for Your Summer Family Trip

Jun 11, 2013 4:30:15 PM  |  by [Tami Kiser](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/author/tami-kiser)

Use a Ziplock bag, visit a shrine, make it to Mass, bring an altar with you.  Here are some tips to make your travels go more smoothly, but also more meaningful:

[https://smartmartha.sharepoint.com/Pages/VacationTips.aspx](https://smartmartha.sharepoint.com/Pages/VacationTips.aspx)

Here is our vacation altar we placed at our cabin we stayed at last summer:

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It helps to remind us that Jesus is always present with our family, even when we are far away from home.   I’ve included a link to a Youtube video with instructions for anyone who would like to make one, too.

 

[youtube_sc url=[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IERAMAZYtuk](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IERAMAZYtuk)]

***Copyright 2013 Tami Kiser***

 

 

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Tami Kiser is a wife, mother, teacher, author, and speaker. She runs a video production studio featuring Catholic speakers. These can be purchased or viewed on Formed. She also is the co-owner and host of a new Catholic Retreat and Cultural Center in the Carolina Mountains called Heart Ridge. She has taught everything from NFP, Zumba, cleaning toilets, Catholic crafting, the hula, bullet journaling, tap dancing, and liturgical living to Saxon Math 54 for the 10th time.

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