22 Feb
The Polar Vortex is Returning: Stay Warm in a Planetarium
Last weekend the high temperature around here was 31 degrees. With the ice and wind, we just knew we couldn’t drag the brood outside. Most people with young children were hunkered down in a movie theater learning more about the wonderful world of Legos. But we have a 10 month old, and although Wes is flexible, bringing him to a movie would be downright loopy. So we decided to do the baby-friendly version of the movie theater…the planetarium. The community college near us has a great program for young children called One World, One... Read More
18 Feb
Our First Guest Bloggers! New Zealand Here They Come…
The Lively Little Campers have met several other kindred RV Travelers through this blog and we always love to hear about their adventures on the open road. So when we found out that John and Cathy, two of our long time readers, were heading to New Zealand for an RV trip, we just knew that we had to get in on the action! Since we aren’t able to hop on a plane and join them we decided to invite them to do some guest blogging about their trip preparations and the trip itself. When the boys get old enough for international RV travel I... Read More
18 Feb
Filling in the Blanks: Our Guest Bloggers Head to New Zealand
We are a couple of semi-retired teachers living in the Philadelphia suburbs. For each of our “big” anniversaries since number 25, we have taken a “big” trip. Ireland and Hawaii were enjoyed as a reward for putting up with each other. This year, for number 40, a really big trip to New Zealand is planned. Why pick New Zealand? As we mentioned in our last post, In 2002 an exchange student from New Zealand joined the track team that I coached. Her host became ill and had to cancel plans for trips over the summer. My wife... Read More
09 Feb
So Parenting Is Hard…Now What? (answer involves the great outdoors)
I’ve been noticing something lately. The more I read the blog posts that are liked and shared and tweeted and pinned, the more I am seeing a pattern emerge. There are a lot of moms talking about being moms. Mostly they are talking to other moms. And the message seems to be something along the lines of… It’s okay. You are going to make it through this. Even though you are worn out; even though you feel wrecked. You yelled at your kids today, but you also hugged them. They threw a wild temper tantrum in the middle of... Read More
03 Feb
For Sun and Mud, Thank You Island Beach State Park
It was messy and it was fabulous. We were lucky enough to get some off-season inspiration from a reader, who urged us to head down to the nature center at Island Beach State Park the next time we were hit with some winter wanderlust. This morning, citing a 45 degree forecast as sufficient reason for playing hooky from church, we went to the place that we love in the summer but have never explored in the winter. It is always the simple things that grab the fancy of the young, and the boys could have played... Read More
14 Jan
