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Tried, True, and Cheap Ways to Make Road Trips with Young Children Entertaining (For Them) and Relaxing (For You)
Whether four hours or four days, road trips can be stressful, let alone road trips with kids. Throw a few squirmy toddlers, perhaps a slightly older little person, and a tiny person and those road trips get exponentially more stressful. Whenever those moments in the car seem to beย on the verge of bursting open in frustrated wails, I close my eyes and imagine what it would be like to be strapped to the seat in a five-point harness with close to no room to shift my heft left or right, sweet toesย dangling at least two feet from the ground, most likely having lost all feeling about forty five minutes into…
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Why Spending a Day in Annapolis, Maryland Should Be on Your Next To Do List
Kids like water. Fact. Even if they don’t like being in it, they like looking at it. And when looking at it also includes looking at sailboats and pirate-esque ships, they like looking at it even more (unless they are scared of pirates, which is a completely valid fear). What I’m getting at is that Annapolis, Maryland, perched on the Chesapeake Bay at the mouth of the Severn River is bound to be an amazing experience for little people based solely upon location (but believe me, that is far from all this quaint little city has to offer…there’s ice cream…oh is there ice cream (stares dreamily out into distance)). Beyond…
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6 Hacks for Making Road Trips with Young Children a Bit Easier for Their Grown Ups
I remember taking road trips with my mom and dad when I was little (don’t ask–there’s no way I’d mention how long ago that was). One year we drove the open road to Wyoming. Now, we didn’t have a station wagon, but for some reason a station wagon is in my memories. And this memory is so clear, that I’m sure it’s true. We must have borrowed it or rented it for the trip. I still have the images of my brother and I sitting in the back of the station wagon. And notย the seat behind the driver’s bench seat either. I mean the most coveted seat of childhood: the…
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Three Kids and A Hernia…or How We Finally Got Family Travel Right
By four that day, we felt done, and my biggest little asked if we could leave the park. She never asks to leave the park. But she did. And my body was all too willing to comply. And that's how we started to figure out how to get it right.
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Surviving Disney World with a Newborn: You Really Can Do It
With each of our mistakes, we've learned a bit about how to survive the visually and physically overwhelming and exhausting landscape of Disney without completely losing our minds.
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Hotel Review–Disneyโs Boardwalk Inn and Villas, Lake Buena Vista, FL–Child Centered
While well orchestrated chaos surrounds, I can slip off into a bench and watch it swim by, content in the knowledge that my little people are fully partaking in that chaos and I donโt need to do a thing to stop it.
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Why the Gulfarium in Florida, on the Emerald Coast, is the Perfect Place to Take a Time Out
Every trip we need to find a way to take a vacation from our vacation. When we're at Florida's Emerald Coast, we find that break, that grounding place, at Ft. Walton's Gulfarium Marine Adventure Park. And each time we're in that part of the world, we keep going back (because, you know, OTTERS!)
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5 Things I Learned on My Most Recent Trip to Disney World
Nothing ever stays the same, even in a place as classic as Disney World.
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Three Kids and a Car Get Liebster Award
But stay tuned, weโve got a lot more planned.
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Why Itโs Important to Travel Without Little People in Order to Travel with Them
Traveling without my little people is an important part of establishing a balance. I can watch so we can anticipate. I can remember so we can relax. It gives me a better me.
