Two Kids and a Map

Happy New Year, everyone!  I can’t believe that it is already 2010.  So much has happened in the last decade to me and my family.  In honor of this new year, (and since this is my very own blog where I can write about what I want !)I decided to take a trip down [...]

Tags: family travel

This is the closest that we will get to snow this year. 

Last year we were sledding down mountains of real snow in Germany.  It snowed on Christmas morning, the kids went sledding every day and my husband was able to ski as often as he wished.  This year, we are staying in sunny Florida where [...]

Tags: Alabama, family travel, Foley, Photo Friday, Road Trips

I love Trekaroo!  This is one of my favorite websites and I stop by several times a week.  Trekaroo is a great way to find family friendly activities, hotels, and restaurants in a city before you visit.  You can also learn more about your own town!  Got something to say about a family friendly experience?  Stop [...]

Tags: family travel, Washington DC

 
Today I am dreaming of New Orleans…again!  Only a short three hour drive away, New Orleans makes a fantastic destination for an overnight getaway.  Yesterday I saw a commercial for Miracle on Fulton Street.  Fulton and Poydras Streets in downtown New Orleans turns into a winter wonderland from November 27 to January 3.  It snows!  In New [...]

Tags: family travel, Louisiana, Monday Dreaming, Road Trips

Today I am dreaming of Hawaii.  Actually, I have been dreaming of Hawaii for the past few weeks.  I lived in Hawaii when I was very little and some of my earliest memories include taking my shoes off before I walked into the school building, playing outside all the time, and being able to speak [...]

Tags: Hawaii

I know that most people have posted their pumpkin, apple and various other fall-esque pictures weeks ago.  I have not because I live in Florida where fall is a mythical creature to us.  It is hot, hot, hot and then it gets biting cold.  Then it gets hot and humid again.  Halloween is a crap shoot–it is [...]

Tags: family travel, Maryland, Poolesville, Virginia, Washington DC

Trying to keep Little S entertained on the plane!
When choosing our seats for our flight on the Delta MD-88 to Washington DC this past weekend, we just wanted to make sure that my family of four was sitting next to each other.  Sitting next to each other eliminates the “I want to sit with daddy not [...]

Tags: family travel

Thanks to all who participated in the My Busy Kit giveaway.  This was my first giveaway and I appreciate the participation!  The winner, selected randomly via random number generator, was Suzanne S. (comment #3) who said:
“I would love a girls my busy kit! We just moved to the area and will be traveling back to [...]

Tags: news

On our massive Virginia road trip, I drove the kids up to Hershey, Pennsylvania to meet up with an old friend.  We visited Chocolate World (I have coined the trip Chocolate Disaster…that is for another post, another day!) and on the way home, we stopped for a potty break at Boyd’s Bear Country in Gettysburg, [...]

Tags: family travel, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Road Trips, Virginia

You have kids…but your friends don’t.  Or vice versa.  Can you still travel together?  And will everyone actually enjoy it?
When we were newly married sans kids, we traveled with different friends all of the time.  We headed on a cruise to the Bahamas, drove through wine country, celebrated the New Year in Miami, wandered the streets of San Francisco, hit [...]

Tags: camping, family travel