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Introducing our 60-mile-per-hour fabulous *budget* adventure

I've never talked much on this blog about money or budgets, but with the economy being in the state it's in, and with everyone talking and writing about staying home this summer, I'm feeling the need to do so. Not because it's trendy but because I …

Day out with kids: Madison Children’s Museum

I know it's been a while since I've written about daytrip adventures here, but that doesn't mean I haven't been having my share of them. When we were in Wisconsin over the holidays we spent a great day at the Madison Children's Museum where the boys …

A change in plans

I posted early in December that for the first time since I started this blog, my family was going to go four or five weeks without any travel by any member. I talked in what I hope were poetic terms about the journey of Advent and how I planned to …

Riding the Santa Train

This is one of my all-time favorite pictures of Tommy, taken during our year on the road with him. He is just a little more halfway between one and two, we were just about halfway done with our traveling, and both Matt and I were feeling a bit …