Tips and Tricks to Family Travel

It’s that time of year – dig out the sleeping bags, bug spray and swim trunks. I’ve got some summer camp tips beyond the camp checklist that might help put your anxious mom brain a little more at ease…

Our family vacations are exhausting – we fast travel. Not the video game world of teleporting, rather, being on-the-go during vacations, soaking in and seeing as many things as you can. Slow travel is quite the opposite – taking…

Some people think flying with kids is akin to ripping out their fingernails. But employing a few tried and true tips for taking kids on planes, can make the journey seamless and, dare I say it, even fun! After…

What can you do when family vacation plans cancel or are changed — illness, flight delays and cancellations, car breakdowns, crappy weather, worker strikes, pandemics? Unfortunately, it feels like there are more and more opportunities to mess up plans…

Should you stay at a bed and breakfast with kids?  We’re always looking for unique and comfortable accommodations when we’re traveling. Before kids, we loved staying at bed and breakfasts because of their unique accommodations in big, old houses…

Minivan, swagger wagon, mom’s car, kid taxi, family mobile –  no matter what you call it, a long, long time ago, I swore that I’d never buy one. However, that promise only lasted as long as it took for…

Ever see a handmade sign for the world’s largest ball of yarn on the side of the road? What about a gummy candy factory? Stopping at unique roadside attractions with kids can be one of the best parts of…

Birdwatching has increased dramatically in popularity since we’ve been working and schooling from home, according to Jim and Nancy Carpenter, my good friends and founders of Wild Birds Unlimited Nature Shop, an “everything you need for birdwatching and feeding”…

Honoring my boys’ cultures and traditions is an important part of being in a multicultural family, and part of that is sharing their heritage with their classmates and friends, too. There’s no better opportunity to do that than celebrating…

Whenever we go to a new country, one of our favorite things to do is go to a market or convenience store to check out and buy some snacks and candy that we don’t have in the U.S. We’ve…