Biographies For Kids Giveaway
Thanks to the friendly people at Scholastic, I can follow up BigB’s reviews of the Wicked History biographies of Francisco Pizarro, Cixi, Genghis Khan and Alexander the Great with a giveaway. Yay! Scholastic has kindly donated the latest titles in this fun series for independent readers: Napoleon, Julius Caesar, Otto Von Bismark and Alexander the Read the Rest…
Biographies For Kids
Every time I visit somewhere new with my children, I try to introduce them to the place we’re going to visit in advance by reading about the country and it’s history. In planning our family world trip, this is more complicated than usual since we’re planning to visit many countries over a longer period of Read the Rest…
Mailbox Theft
I looked at the screen and felt the blood drain from my face and a ball of stress start to build in my stomach. What was that check for $795 that had just posted to my checking account? I knew I hadn’t written a check for that amount recently. I pulled up the check image Read the Rest…
Flight Delay Lima To Seattle
Today’s post is my entry in the TBEX 2010 Community Keynote. It’s a short essay on my most memorable flight delay as a solo-traveling parent. We found our departure gate and spread ourselves out comfortably: Cillian on the floor with toys, me with one eye on my book and one eye on my child. I Read the Rest…
Happy St. Patricks Day
If you’ve got a St. Patrick’s Day themed post, or a post about Ireland, please add it here. (If your url is longer than 100 characters, you will need to use a url shortening service, like bit.ly): Related Posts Road Trip Ireland Part I – The South Coast Road Trip Ireland Part II – Dublin Read the Rest…
Road Trip Ireland Part III – Into The West
In this final post in this series on visiting Ireland I’ll be describing the places we plan to visit during our upcoming trip. We haven’t been to Ireland since 2005 (I can’t complain, we’ve met up with our extended family in Portugal, Cyprus and Italy in the intervening period) so we’re all excited at the Read the Rest…
How To Speak With An Irish Accent
Consider this preparation for a great St. Patrick’s Day. Watch the video. Trust me, you’ll never utter the words “with potatoes” without a smile again. Happy Photo Friday! Related Posts Road Trip Ireland Part I – The South Coast An overview of visiting Ireland with kids . Like what you’ve read? Subscribe for updates via Read the Rest…
Road Trip Ireland Part II – Dublin To Belfast
For today’s post I’m going to focus on the part of Ireland where I grew up: the Boyne Valley. As I’ve said before, Ireland is positively littered with structures built in earlier times from early Christian churches to castles of all types, sorts and sizes. In the Boyne Valley, you’ll find all of that and Read the Rest…
Road Trip Ireland Part I – The South Coast
I’ve been asked about visiting Ireland with kids twice in the past week or so. So, given that and the fact that St. Patrick’s Day is coming up, I thought I’d be patriotic and devote a few posts to visiting Ireland.
Photo Friday: Travel Vaccinations
If you read my post on medical preparations for our family world trip earlier this week you might have been wondering how our kids actually did with the shots. I think this photo sums it up nicely 🙂 CAM, being a little older was more stoic – at least for the photo! Like what you’ve Read the Rest…
keep looking »-
From Our Partners