Category Archives: TRAVEL

(per request…) Our Top Ten “Must Pack” Kids’ Food for Hotel Travel: Single-serve, microwavable, macaroni-and-cheese packs. I buy lots of the Back to Nature ones and pack them for trips. (K & O will eat 3 each in one sitting.) … Continue reading →

We celebrated our 7th Adoption Day with a trip to Chincoteague Island, Virginia. Chincoteague is a unique, wild, beautiful place. It’s famous for its ponies — Chincoteague Ponies — and we saw lots of them. Ponies! Ponies just roaming around … Continue reading →

Kyle, Owen, and Meera’s Great-Great-Grandfather Builds the Original Dock at The Cottage A gentle breeze over the water, cool and fresh; the sound of laughter. Cottage screen-door slap-cracks against the jamb, down old stone steps, one, two, feet in splash, brisk, … Continue reading →

We went to The Lowcountry of South Carolina seeking a low-key, slow-paced, deep south break from our reality. We went for a week of simple things; a grounding, a re-connecting, a reminding. We got it. “I dream of simple things … Continue reading →

The vacation was bookended on either side with road tripping. All five of us love travel of all kinds— even including (yes, I know, it is hard to believe this to be true of young kids)… long roadtrips. The drive … Continue reading →

We took a daytrip to Charleston half-way through our week. Braydon and I lived together in Charleston for a year in our early twenties, before we started graduate school. It was an amazing year for us in so many ways … Continue reading →

Two books we can highly recommend, especially for black kids learning about the history of African-American slavery: Moses: When Harriet Tubmen Led Her People to Freedom Circle Unbroken: The Story of a Basket and its People And one book we … Continue reading →

It is only ever going to happen once in our lifetimes— the last day of having twin six year olds. It just happens overnight—they have a birthday, and bam!— they are never the age past again. On the last day … Continue reading →

“What happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly?” ~Author Unknown Two years ago my cousins Karen and Eric both died within six weeks of each other. Life as … Continue reading →

…Getting ten people (who live in three different states) to Anguilla is no simple task. Especially when four of the ten are under the age of 8. We J-Ms stayed in an airport hotel the night before the big travel … Continue reading →