All Posts: Florence
I originally published this post on my old blog last year and thought I would offer an updated version for this Halloween. Of course, you’ll have to wait until Halloween night for pictures of the children in costume, but I hope that the suspense makes you return.
My oldest child is somewhat famous around these parts [...]
When I was in the fourth grade, my mother took me to Italy for nine months. As I’ve written before, it was this experience that really sparked my interest in travel. There’s nothing like traveling as a kid to teach you things about how to travel as a mom!
I was recently invited to write about [...]
The web site Travel Savvy Mom (one of my favorites both for its travel recommendations and the wonderful writing you’ll find there) is running a terrific series of posts this week in honor of Mother’s Day called “Before We Were Moms.” The idea is for the writers there to share stories of how their mothers [...]
One of Tommy’s favorite places when we went to Florence was the Boboli Gardens, which had delighted me equally when I lived there as a child. In fact, the school I attended was right up the street and we used to eat our lunches on the lawn under the sycamores.
Although I love this picture, [...]
Today I’m dreaming of Florence, Italy, a place I’ve been twice. It was the fifth stop during our year of travel with Tommy (Matt’s sister Becky joined us there). And it was the first place I visited outside of the United States when I was nine years old. In fact, I spent my fourth-grade year [...]
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