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The Mother of All Trips started in June 2008, as my family was preparing to go on a two-week trip to Paris. Really though, it started five years earlier, when my husband Matt and I spent 13 months traveling with our then one-year-old son Tommy. I wrote a book about that experience, and you'll also find that lots of the stories from that time turn up here. Throw in my many dreams of places I'd like to visit, the day trips we often take, and a host of posts about the best places to eat ice cream and you'll find there's a lot to read.

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July 31, 2008

I could’ve had a large-screen TV

So we were driving from Massachusetts to Vermont on Tuesday and Matt turns to me at one point after entering receipts in the check register and says, “You know what? If we had toughed it out and driven straight from Delaware to Vermont and packed a picnic lunch, we could have bought a big-screen TV [...]

July 30, 2008

Ahhhh, Vermont

We arrived in Vermont yesterday evening. Lest you wonder about my state of mind, here’s a quote from the chapter of my book about our visit here when Tommy was one: Returning to Vermont does feel like going home for me. When I cross the border, something in my chest, a tension I was unaware [...]

July 28, 2008

A change in the itinerary

Remember my sage advice about having a plan? I hope that I did a good job of stressing the importance of being FLEXIBLE. Or at least of not being a crabby pants, which is really the only way I could be described today. We went to Look Park, a lovely place with a water play [...]

July 27, 2008

On the road again

Today we embarked on an entirely different trip than our recent one to Paris: our annual 3-week sojourn in Vermont where my father and stepmother live. We have done this every summer since Tommy was born save the year he was two, when we had just returned from our 13 months on the road and [...]

July 24, 2008

A little travel wisdom

I’ve been thinking about what information I can offer about traveling with children that our trip to Paris illustrates. I’d like to share things beyond the “tips” so often found on parenting sites (for example, I think by now that we all know that diaper wipes will wash any body part as well as a [...]

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