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Nine Ideas to Meaningfully Reconnect with Your Child

January 25, 2011




I’m away at the Blissdom Conference this week and decided to use the opportunity to feature some fabulous guest posts from bloggers I love. This first one, by Dionna from Code Name Mama, will be especially helpful for all of us mamas at Blissdom this week as we prepare to return home and reconnect. ~~~~~~ [...]

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Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller, Alberta

January 5, 2011




I love photogenic museums. When we were in Berlin, I took tons of photos at the Deutsche Kinemathek museum, which has a spectacular building and gorgeous exhibits. Today we visited the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller, Alberta and I snapped a few pics.

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Family Vacation Traditions: Collioure over the years

April 18, 2010




Whether close to home or far away, I think there is a lot of value in family vacation traditions. When I was a kid, we often vacationed in Maine and we have memories and photographs of our family there spanning decades. We have taken Julian there and hope to take Emma there one day too. [...]

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I left my kids for five days and it was okay

February 10, 2010




Last Thursday morning, I kissed Emma goodbye, dropped Julian off at school with a big hug and kiss and continued on to the airport. I hopped on a plane and headed off to Los Angeles, via Chicago for a conference for work. I met up with friends, learned new things, saw a bit of Los [...]

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Parenting styles on vacation

December 26, 2009




Over the course of any given day, I get many glimpses into how other people parent their children. But those moments in time, those little peeks, are nothing compared with being in an all-inclusive child-friendly resort for a week with a ton of other families. We recently returned from a week-long vacation in Cuba. It [...]

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Preschooler photo art

August 10, 2009




Over the weekend, our four year old son went canoe-camping with Daddy and a family friend. While the two men packed up the campsite or prepared meals, there wasn’t always a lot for him to do. With no toys, no TV and no little sister to harass play with, he turned to his artistic side [...]

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What is a family hotel?

June 7, 2008




We are a family that likes to travel. Travelling with one infant was always easy. He slept with us and even a double bed would do for the three of us in a pinch, so pretty much any standard hotel room would do. Now with two kids, finding an appropriate hotel is a bigger challenge. [...]

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