Category: Travel Planning
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Best Travel Carseats and Toddler Travel Seats
This post may contain affiliate links. We spent the last weekend in Las Vegas celebrating Chris’s birthday. We had a great time and thoroughly enjoyed all the kid-friendly activities Sin City had to offer. We planned to use the resort shuttle to get around, but it ended up being too convenient to hop into a…
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What to Wear in Lapland in January: The Best Winter Layers
This post may contain affiliate links. I just returned from my first ever real winter experience. Before I went my biggest concern was staying warm and figuring out what to wear in Lapland in January! Kiruna is solidly in Swedish Lapland and typically stays between 1 and 19° F (-17 to -7° C) in…
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Lessons Learned on Our First Trip to Disneyland
This post may contain affiliate links. There are so many posts out there about how to perfect your Disneyland trip. They range from generic tips to super-specific-step-by-step-itineraries, so I wasn’t sure I wanted to add another “How to See Disneyland in a Day” post. Instead, I’m going to share some quick, initial thoughts after our…
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Best Children’s Gifts for Christmas while Traveling
This post may contain affiliate links. Traveling to visit family, friends, or just a wonderful new location is a great way to spend Christmas. But deciding what to buy, pack, or bring is especially difficult at Christmas. Here are some thoughts on the best children’s gifts for Christmas while traveling as well as some creative…
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How to Get a Chinese Tourist Visa for the Whole Family
This post may contain affiliate links. We are headed to China in 2018! We’re especially excited because the children are learning Chinese and my Grandmother is Chinese. It will also be the longest trip we’ve taken with the kids so there is a lot of preparation to do. The most important piece of preparation was…
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How to Turn Your Flight into a Vacation
This post may contain affiliate links. This is for all the moms (and dads) out there who occasionally get to/have to fly without their children. I did it wrong for years but I have finally seen the light and consider myself liberated! No more will I tolerate boring flights! No more will I check my…
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Kid’s Water-Safety While Traveling
This post may contain affiliate links. My daughter earned her first ribbon in swim class today! I was so proud of her as she jumped off the edge, turned to float on her back, and then swam to the edge all by herself! It really got me thinking about all the time I’ve spent worrying…
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Camping Essentials With Toddlers and Preschoolers
This post may contain affiliate links. We’ve only been taking the kids camping for just over a year now, but we’ve already made 7 different trips as a family! So now that we’ve got some experience under our belt, I’m here to share my camping with toddlers checklist that has led to some of the…
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JetKids BedBox Review
This post may contain affiliate links. My kids have had dozens of great flights. They’ve been well-behaved, they’ve slept, it’s been a dream. However, my children have also each had 1 really bad flight. For K, it was on the way to Bangkok and for HJ it was on the way back. Those were the…
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Gift Ideas for Men who Travel 2017
This post may contain affiliate links. Christmas is coming up fast and I need to get some shopping done! Shopping for the children is easy as cake but shopping for the men in my life is a whole different story! Since this has been a big travel year for everyone, I am starting my…
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