Travel

What Not to Do with a Toddler: Travel by Air (Part One)

Welcome to the first edition of a series of posts entitled: What Not to Do with a Toddler. This is certainly not the first time I have written about traveling with a baby; it's a common theme on my blog.  However this is the first time I have written about traveling...

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My Beijing “Vacation”

My Beijing “Vacation”

How do you define a vacation? For Damon, vacation means he is on official leave.  Time and place don't matter. For me, vacation means I'm lying by the beach/pool/someplace warm with trashy magazine an intellectual book in one hand and an adult beverage in the other. ...

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That Time I Forgot My Vacation

That Time I Forgot My Vacation

I realize I've been a bit MIA recently.  Damon was gone on detachment in Australia for three weeks, the better part of which either Elisabeth and I were battling illness at home in Japan.  We've been busy with other things as well: I hosted Damon's squadron for Easter...

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Mele Kalikimaka

Mele Kalikimaka

I want to be in Hawaii right now.  But who doesn't, right? That's where Damon, Elisabeth and I spent a wonderful but far-too-short week last month for our Christmas vacation. Growing up in Southern California, I always longed for a White Christmas.  Snow was such a...

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Happy End of the Holidays

Happy End of the Holidays

Happy New Year! Now that that's out of the way, can we all breathe a collective sigh of relief that the business and stress that naturally accompanies the holiday season is over?  Don't get me wrong, I LOVE the holidays, but now that I have a little person to contend...

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