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Hotel Review-Embassy Suites, Chevy Chase, MD-Child Accommodating (With a Watchful Eye)
The main issue facing the hotel is the same issue that makes it appealing: it is part of a mall. That's right. A mall. A mall with a CVS (yay late night candy shopping), a World Market (because I always need to buy more whimsical notebooks or napkins for the house), and a Starbucks (because I'm a mom and I need it to go with the wine I just bought at World Market). So, there are some pretty impressive positives to staying at this hotel. But that mall aspect? Oh it isn't without it's down side as well.
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Three Kids and a…Mother’s Day Hike: an Ode to My Father
There is no reason a grown man should wake up at 2 am infectiously giddy. He has no right to be singing about going to “Wally World” and moving swiftly, floating even, turning on lights, rousing children. He shouldn’t have the ability to make a house pulse with life when just a week earlier it had been flatlining with the comings and goings of the everyday. And when that man then has to take his once sleep-weary children, put them in the car, and proceed to drive 1500 miles, there are even fewer reasons said man should be anything less than entirely spent and growling. He should have every right to…
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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 be 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 toes 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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Tips for Flying with an Older (Wigglier) Infant (6-12 months)
This is the exhausting infant. And flying with them can be exhausting, so we've got a few rules we go by.
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Answers to Some Questions You Didn’t Know You Had When Planning a Getaway to Nickelodeon’s All Inclusive Resort in Punta Cana-Updated
Then one day it just started popping up everywhere. I mean every single place I looked. It stalked me. Nickelodeon’s new all inclusive property in Punta Cana. So I researched and read. And reached out to get details. How important are details? Let me say again, I have three little people. Seriously. Details are ridiculously important.
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Hotel Review: The Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort
The hotel has much to offer, but don’t be fooled into thinking that because it is on Disney property, it is the equivalent of staying at a Disney hotel.
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How to Turn a Trip to Walt Disney World into a Vacation
We want to escape the real world one more day and relax amidst the cacophony of Disney (and probably avoid doing the laundry). So how can a place so loud, so colorful, so fast be relaxing?
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Three Kids and a Change in Plans
We saw nothing. It was like we were behind the veil of a fogged-over stroller cover.
