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How to save on your next family vacation

May 10, 2012
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Taking a vacation can be a costly undertaking. Depending on where you’re going, you may need to pay for airline tickets, hotels, rental cars, cabs, and exchange fees – and that’s before you even start enjoying your actual destination. Since the upfront costs of a vacation can be so large, especially if you have a [...]

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Our trip to Great Wolf Lodge

December 23, 2010
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Our overnight trip last week to an indoor water park? Awesome. We jetted off to Great Wolf Lodge North Carolina. They have an indoor water park!  That really sealed the deal for us. (Lifted from their website; should have borrowed my sister’s waterproof camera.) We stayed in a Kid Kamp room, which had a nice [...]

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Houston says "Don't leave again!"

July 6, 2010
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Our trip was going so well. We left late Thursday, drove about 5 hours, stopped at a hotel, then got on the road early Friday morning. The girls were pretty cooperative, despite about 6 hours of sleep the previous night. It was great until the navigation system said we had about one hour remaining.  And, [...]

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To drive or not to drive

May 18, 2010
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Eight weeks.  I have eight weeks off this summer.  Let’s just ignore the fact that that is two weeks shorter than normal. We haven’t been to Houston since last August, and that was just for a short weekend.  I know we are due for a trip.  After all, I can’t get good Tex-Mex anywhere else! [...]

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What I learned on our first family vacation

April 13, 2010
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Snacks taste much better without clothes on.  Shoes, however, are mandatory. Even after being on the road for a long time, the kids will be ready for more. Especially if you tell them water is involved. If your kid is going to puke, it will happen in bed sometime during your deepest sleep. Kids don’t [...]

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The lost quad?

April 8, 2010
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When I was pregnant with Isabelle over 4 years ago, I didn’t have many good friends that had done the “pregnancy thing.”  So, I reached out to an online community.  It really was a great place to compare how things were going, voice our concerns and chat with people that were in the same stage [...]

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