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Traveling with the family? Read these tips for a successful, stress free vacation.
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How to Travel as a Family with Tips from an Experienced Family of Travelers

I absolutely love to travel. It seems many of my generation have this pull to travelling these days. However it’s not always easy when you have a family in tow. Read more about local travel in our Backyard Tourist series. Some of my favorite family memories were when we traveled somewhere – Washington DC, Quebec, […]

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4 practical tips to keep your family healthy this winter.
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How to Keep Your Family Healthy This Winter

How to Keep Your Family Healthy This Winter Snow, hot chocolate, and sledding are all things we associate with the cold winter months. Runny noses, chills, and hacking coughs are also all things that we, unfortunately, associate with the winter season. Having the flu or a cold of any kind puts a damper on a […]

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Winter Reads for the Whole Family from Disney

Winter is a wonderful time to cozy up in a warm blanket and break out some new books. These new titles from Disney caught my eye as there was a little something for our whole family. It’s time for some new winter reads! I received these winter reads from Disney in exchange for a review. […]

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When life doesn't go as planned, your attitude will make all the difference
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When Life Doesn’t Go As Planned

We can plan our life out all we want, but rarely does it ever turn out exactly as we planned, and sometimes it doesn’t even get close to the original plan. So what do you do? It’s all in the attitude, as I learned yesterday, but also the mental preparation. Yesterday morning my sweet friend […]

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Star Wars Activity Sheets
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Star Wars Activities

No Spoilers here – just good old round up of Star Wars inspired fun to round out your year. Mark and I got to see the new movie for date night last week. It was awesome, because it’s the first date we’d had in 4.5 months and was a movie we were both excited to […]

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Supporting Friends and Family suffering Infertility + Twitter Chat + Giveaway

*This post is brought to you by The Stork OTC and The Motherhood. All opinions are my own. I am not a nurse or healthcare provider. Treatment should always be discussed with your healthcare provider.  Planning for a family should be easy, but that’s not always the case. In my walk of life, I have […]

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Rainy Day Fun with Rany Zany

I received product for review from RanyZany and The Social Butterfly Co. All opinions are my own. I love playing in the rain, and so do the kids! It’s been quite stormy around here this week, but once the downpour let up for a bit, we headed outside for some rainy day fun. It was […]

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5 Favorite Family Reunion Locations

We know what you’re thinking right now: “Why on Earth am I reading an article about family travel from the same guys who print my t-shirts?” Well, firstly: Ouch. 🙁 That hurt our feelings. You really should be nicer! And secondly: Believe it or not, we know what we’re talkin’ about! We deal with thousands […]

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Throw a Fancy Dinner Party

I received product for review. All opinions are 100% my own. Last weekend the older girls were invited to a Stay Late, or Late Over – whatever you call it when you don’t allow sleep overs. Princess R was just so sad that she did not get to go, and even more sad when I […]

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Merry Christmas

Dear family and friends, This year we did not send out cards or even a Christmas letter. We’ve always been pretty good at this, but this year has been an interesting one. So forgive me for writing to you so publicly. Next year I hope to be more on top of things. We began 2014 […]

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