Last week when I was preparing to leave for a planned five-day ski trip in Vermont I found myself tight on time and debating whether I should make my usual pre-trip run in search of diversion for the children. Our beloved local toy store, long the …
Have you ever had a family travel food fail?
February 16, 2012 8 reader comments
So I mentioned earlier this week that my children walked the entire Freedom trail – all two and half miles of it – over the course of about six or seven hours one gorgeous July day. But in that post I didn't tell you the sad end of the story. …
A stay at the Omni Berkshire Place, or Daddy and Teddy take Manhattan
February 10, 2012 2 reader comments
It's not often that I travel with just one of my children or that Matt is the one to lead the adventuring, but last weekend that's just what happened when he and Teddy accompanied me to Manhattan for a quick overnight visit. I was there to network …
How do you bring history to life for kids?
February 2, 2012 8 reader comments
I have always liked history, and as fortune would have it, I married a man who shares that interest. Maybe it's because I enjoy stories, but to me there's something so amazing in the idea that at every point in recorded time ordinary people have been …
Breakfast and books in Beantown
February 1, 2012 2 reader comments
We're a breakfast-loving family, so much so that we often eat that meal twice when we're on the road – once in our hotel room at whatever ridiculously early hour the boys decide to rise – and then again later in the morning once we've headed out …
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