Web Wednesday โ Mommy Poppins
One thing I like to do before I go on a trip is try to find local blogs. A local travel or parenting blog is a great way to get the insider’s story . Often, you can find these blogs with simple web searches. I also like to use “social networking” tools, such as Twitter
Tuneful Tuesday โ Catch That Train!
Reflecting on our recent trip to NYC that seemed to focus on the subway, the CD that jumps to mind is Catch That Train from Dan Zanes and Friends. Dan is a wonderful family musician who is based in Brooklyn. In fact, we actually got to chat with him for a few minutes while we
New York Transit Museum
On a rainy, carless Sunday in Brooklyn, the girls and I sat eating a bagel discussing out choices of what to do. I handed our travel book Lonely Planet NYC to Camille to see what she might come up with. A few of her selections were not open on a Sunday, but one was open
Arts in the Park
Yesterday, we headed into Blue Ridge for the Arts in the Park Festival. I remembered to bring our soda mug for $1 refills. The girls enjoy looking at the art, but Chloe especially liked looking at all the DOGS! Big ones, little ones, all of them. I got a new broom. If I have to
New York City Photos
From our train trip to NYC earlier this month:
Getting Around Paris
My first trip to Paris with kids, I had not done my homework. My eldest was about a year and a half, and I hopped in a taxi from the airport with her. No car seat. The peripherique in a taxi with a toddler and no car seat? Never, ever again. Since that time, despite
Europe in one day
A few weeks ago, we were fortunate enough to travel to Latvia, Spain, Germany, France, and Luxembourg … thanks to the third annual European Union Open House Day. We started out one block from our apartment, at the EU Delegation offices. I had always wanted to go inside, and was happy for the chance! A
French Media Suggestions?
As I’ve mentioned previously, I love to get the kids ready for a trip by helping them discover the wonder of it via books, music and movies. We will be spending a few weeks in France in July — a week in Paris and a week in Nice. While both girls have been to Paris
art lessons
By the time Camille was “this many,” she knew her impressionists. She could tell a van Gogh from a Monet. She had been to Giverny and stood on Monet’s bridge. Chloe suffers from second child syndrome. We have not exposed her nearly enough to our favorite art, poor thing. A couple of weeks ago when
Thursday Tip โ Airport Security
As crazy as it seems, sometimes just getting through security can be one of the most stressful parts of a trip. I’ve seen chaos and confusion, not just for families traveling with kids. Inexperienced travelers of all ages have difficulties navigating through security. While I don’t claim that the few pointers here can make it
Web Wednesday โ DeliciousBaby
One travel advice website that I often visit is Delicious Baby: Making Travel with Kids Fun. Well, I already think that travel with my kids is fun, but I don’t mind trying to make it FUNNER! I find there to be a lot of helpful hints, but the focus of the site tends to be
natural historian
Earlier this month, we were in Brooklyn for a weekend. On Monday, we checked out of our hotel and (finally!?!) found a good bagel place. The weather was grey and rainy, so we really were not in the mood to explore places by foot outdoors, especially while carrying all our conference swag, our clothes and
Tuneful Tuesday โ European Playground
One thing that I love to do before a trip is to try to prepare myself and the kids for the place we are heading, especially when it is a new place for us to go. I get books, movies and music that relate to the place in some way. For movies, I look for
Kingston Plantation, Myrtle Beach
A couple of months ago, I had the irresistible urge to get to the ocean. This seems to happen every year in the winter. I must get to a place where I can see the sun rise over the horizon, hear the waves and feel the sand. It doesn’t matter if the ocean temperature is
Where in the World?
Wow, I haven’t done much here in the past couple of weeks. Lots of deadlines at work plus lots of travel have left me scurrying to catch up on all of my various projects. In the past couple of weeks we have been to NYC, DC, Spain, Germany, France, Luxembourg (in fact, just the EU
Rainy Day in Brooklyn
I woke up early on Sunday and tried to catch up on all the videos and photos I had taken on Saturday. But by 11am, the kids were still asleep and I was more than ready to get out of the hotel and do something. Unfortunately, the drizzle turned to rain…we found breakfast (the girls
Kindie Brooklyn
For the third year in a row (2007 and 2008), we headed to Brooklyn to the gathering of the “kindie” music scene, now called now called kindiefest. What fun it was to see so many of our favorite musicians and our online friends all gathered in one spot! The girls got the chance to participate
geocache mission
Fort Mountain was our address this weekend. The “Trading Post” had wifi, but in the so-called “cottages” I could barely squeak an Edge connection on my phone. More on our weekend later this week…. As we were leaving, my parents pulled up to the cottage with a plan. Not quite fully formed, but a plan.
DC LIke A Local
Okay, I’m no DC local. And I have not seen nearly all that DC has to offer. But I have found a blog called, obviously enough, DC Like A Local. Not only have I agreed with a lot of the advice provided, but I have also found useful tidbits of information from the posts. Things
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