Most children enjoy drawing and practicing their handwriting skills, along with talking about themselves and their day. A creative way to engage them and capture their vacation experience through their eyes, while creating a lasting documentation of childhood and development, is through journaling. I like to call these journals our "Adventure Journals" • Give each child their own • Allow…
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I have always admired photographers, and I am not talking about people who take pictures, but true artists who can capture the beauty and wonder of a fleeting world. These kind of people not only have a talent for the mechanism of photography, but have the rare ability to see beauty in unlikely places and show it to others. That is exactly the…
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Learning about world cultures is something I like to do with my kids regularly, even when we can’t pack up and jet off around the world. Cooking is an ideal way to explore other countries with kids because it gets them involved in the creation process and their always a treat to enjoy at the end. This ‘travel through eating’…
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Sometimes after a long week you just need to pack a bag, grab the toddlers and have an overnight adventure. We call them staycations. Often, we opt to stay the night at a local hotel or sleep over with family to shake that weekly case of the blues. We all know how stressful packing a family for a long vacation can be,…
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Travel is an experience that definitely delivers on its advertised promises to introduce new elements that become a part of our everyday life. Sometimes we pick up a new recipe from a far flung country that makes its way into our kitchen. On other occasions we find a cultural celebration that we want to try to recreate. And sometimes, traveling…
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