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Indian Echo Caverns Review: Fun for the Whole Family?

June 18, 2018 By Lauren

Below: An Indian Echo Caverns review that tells you what to expect on your tour, if it’s kid-friendly, what to wear, and more. Thank you to Indian Echo Caverns and Visit Hershey and Harrisburg for the tickets. Indian Echo Caverns Review: Fun for the Whole Family? Is spelunking on your bucket list? To be honest, […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Informational Tagged With: caves, Hershey, Indian Echo Caverns, spelunking, travel, vacation

24 Fun Mother Daughter Trips You’ll Want to Take Right Now

January 15, 2018 By Lauren

These 24 fun mother daughter trip ideas will get you excited to spend quality time with the special girls in your life.

Below: Go on one of these fun mother daughter trips to spend some quality time with the special girl(s) in your life. It was November and that meant one thing. Actually it meant a lot of things: Winter was beginning, Thanksgiving was right around the corner, Christmas would follow soon after that… But for my […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Informational Tagged With: daughter, day trips, fun mother daughter trips, mother, parenting, travel, vacation

Staying in a Hotel With Kids, By the Numbers

May 15, 2017 By Lauren

Staying in a hotel with kids is far different than staying in a hotel by yourself. Let's break it down by the numbers.

About a month ago, the kids and I left Eric home and went on a little mini-vacation with some of my family. We spent three nights in a hotel, which was a huge treat for the kids since we rarely do that. It was fun for me too, and having my sister in the room […]

Filed Under: Family Life, I Tried It!, Parenting Humor Tagged With: hotel, memories, numbers, pool, travel, traveling with kids, vacation

The Truth About Vacationing With Kids

February 17, 2017 By Lauren

A mom of three dishes on the the real truth about vacationing with kids

I glanced out the window at a bright blue sky, then looked down at the blanket of clouds below us. In a few more minutes we would enter those clouds and when we came out on the other side, the cold, snowy landscape that greeted us would signal the end of our family vacation. We’d […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Informational, Parenting Essays Tagged With: kids, parenting, travel, vacation, vacationing with kids

Eight Items You Need When Your Kids Get Sick on Vacation

July 25, 2016 By Lauren

An inevitable part of parenting is having your kids get sick while you're on vacation. Even though you hope for the best, it's smart to plan for the worst. Here's what you need in your hotel room if your kids get sick.

This post contains affiliate links. Any purchases made through these links help support the blog at no added cost to you! Before my husband and I had kids, I remember my sister-in-law saying that without fail, her kids would get sick while on vacation. She wasn’t being overly dramatic. It really did seem to happen […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Informational, Parenting Humor Tagged With: kids, parenting, sick, vacation

9 Tips to Keep Everyone Happy on a Family Road Trip

June 25, 2015 By Lauren

Family Road Trip

As we head into summer, millions of families will be hitting the road for a good, old-fashioned family vacation. Whether heading across town or across the country, traveling with kids can turn even the calmest parent into a bundle of nerves. With a little planning though, the entire family can have a (relatively) stress-free and absolutely fun experience that will create […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Informational Tagged With: family, fun, LEGO Juniors, road trip, summer, tips, travel, vacation

What Moms Do When Their Kids Are Away

March 16, 2015 By Lauren

What Moms Do When Their Kids Are Away

I considered making the only thing in this post the following: Whatever. We. Want. But then I thought I should chronicle my time when the kids are gone this weekend because it’s a strange mixture of thoughts, feelings, and actions that are reminiscent of, yet completely different from, what we used to do before we […]

Filed Under: Family Life, I Tried It!, Parenting Humor Tagged With: away, kids, moms, motherhood, parenting, vacation, weekend

My Totally Selfish Reason for Taking My Kids to Disney

January 16, 2015 By Lauren

Taking My Kids to Disney

My Totally Selfish Reason for Taking My Kids to Disney Have you ever noticed how once you start thinking about something, it suddenly seems to pop up everywhere? It makes sense I guess; things you never paid attention to start sticking out once they’re already on your mind. Recently, we’ve been talking about taking a family vacation to Florida […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Parenting Essays Tagged With: brats, debt, Disney, entitled, kids, memories, parents, spoiled, vacation

Top Ten Reasons to Get Excited About School Vacation

December 18, 2014 By Lauren

School Vacation

School vacation is almost upon us. A lot of parents have mixed feelings about vacations, feeling excitement over some aspects of their kids being home and dread over others. I’m not a fan of dwelling on the negative, so here’s a list of awesome things about school vacation. Hopefully it puts you in the right […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Parenting Humor Tagged With: kids, parenting, parents, school, school vacation, top ten, vacation

Week five: National Lampoon’s February vacation

February 24, 2014 By Lauren

If you’re just joining me, please click here to find out what this is all about. I never wanted to be one of those moms who dreaded school vacations and longed for her children to go back to the classroom. What was the point of having kids if you didn’t even want to spend time […]

Filed Under: Keeping It Real Challenge Tagged With: family time, keeping it real, outdoors, screen time, tablets, vacation, video games

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