Make Your Own Canvas Beach Windbreak
Last summer we had a marvelous two week beach vacation planned at one of my very favorite spots to visit – Cannon Beach, Oregon. It’s a dreamy beach, miles long and extra wide so there’s plenty of room for walking, running, flying kites or…
Summer Travel with Kids: A Roundup
Since summertime is right around the corner and a lot of families will be doing a lot of summer travel with kids I thought I’d put together a little roundup of the travel related posts I’ve written over the years. I hope having all…
Asparagus Tamales at Los Hernandez Tamales
This past weekend we loaded up the kids and dogs into the ol’ family truckster and headed east toward Union Gap and the land of sunny skies and desert vistas in search of asparagus tamales. Union Gap is in the Yakima Valley in Eastern…
Create A Restaurant Activity Kit To Keep Kids Entertained At Dinner
As anyone with young kids knows, eating out can be hit or miss, especially if you’d like to go somewhere a step up from fast food! I came up with a way to ease the pain of dining out by bringing along a restaurant…
Tips for Surviving Airplane Travel with Kids
Traveling by plane with kids is stressful – there’s no way around it. You’re all trapped in a little metal tube for hours on end with hundreds of strangers and no way to escape. There are a few major differences between traveling by air…
Travel Journals for Germany
I started making travel journals for the kids when we went to Montana last summer, and then in the fall I made journals again for our trip to Germany. The little guy is still a bit young to fully appreciate it, but I do…
Color Matching Game for Kids
I saw an idea for a color matching game on Pinterest (searching through many many unattributed pins on that site led me to find this post which seems original although not the one I saw). I made a set for each child and brought…
Felt Boards for Kids
Over the next few days I’m going to post some of the projects I did during my ‘hiatus’ from the site. Way back in August I started on a project to make felt boards for the kids, mainly for our trip to Germany to…
Everyone Here Is Getting Excited
I helped the kiddo make a countdown calendar to mark off the days until our trip. It’s installed in our bedroom (so one little frequent visitor doesn’t mess with it) and the first day is marked off!
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