Tag: Tips and Tricks
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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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Tips to Reduce Stress while Traveling with Kids
How to reduce stress while traveling with kids? This month a great group of travel bloggers are all tackling this same question! After the tips, you’ll find links to their posts at the bottom. Check them out and choose the tips that work for you and your family! I regularly get told that I’m brave…
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Flying Tips: Baby and Toddler
We have definitely done our share of flying with babies and toddlers. In fact, we have a trip coming up this week! We no longer have a baby to fly with, but our niece and nephew have an upcoming trip to Hawaii and asked for our tips. Choosing the Schedule When possible, fly direct. It…
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Weekend Camping Meal Plan
We recently went camping at Shaver Lake and want to share our camping meal plan. One of my 13 Tips for Camping With Toddlers and Preschoolers is to make sure meals are easy and this menu definitely qualifies. Friday Camping Meal Plan I’ve found that green smoothies in kid’s CamelBak straw cups work really well in the…
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AirBnB Disaster Story
For Memorial Day weekend we had a 3 day trip to Santa Barbara planned. We were going to meet my Aunt from LA and spend the weekend exploring the area and we were all really excited about it! The first thing that went slightly wrong was my Aunt forgot about it and double booked for the…
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The Thief of Joy
Travel is a very relative thing. Relative to our friends and family we travel a lot, and the children have especially been on a lot of flights and road trips. Relative to the travel bloggers I follow, we’ve basically never left our house. ? For me personally, when I read about families traveling or living abroad, I have to…
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The Ultimate Beach Packing List for Babies and Toddlers
This post may contain affiliate links. It’s May and that means fun in the sun and the surf! I love a day (or even a couple hours) at the beach and with the beach only half an hour away, I’m assembling a kit to keep in the trunk of the car. Here’s what I’m…
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5 Ways to Maximize PTO & Travel More
Traveling makes me greedy. The more I travel the more I want to travel! But we’ve still got to balance our wanderlust with everyone’s favorite limiting factors: time and money. Right now we are privileged to only have one job to accommodate, and Chris has a generous vacation/PTO plan. It’s still something we have to work…
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My Top 5 #AirTravel Fails
Over the years we’ve messed up, like really messed up, but we’ve learned from it and become better travelers as a result. Here’s my “List of Shame” to help you learn from my mistakes, or just feel better about yourself! 1) Relying on my memory of the flight schedule. I never do this anymore. I…
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My Favorite Travel Tool for Flying with Children: TSA PreCheck
TSA PreCheck how I love you. Let me count the ways. I’ve had it for a year now and I can tell you definitively that it is worth its weight in gold if you have young children. Why TSA Precheck? Here’s why you should click over to the TSA website right now if you have young…
Magnets From Everywhere 