Category: Mom’s Travel Tales
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Have you visited your state’s Capitol Building?
A few weeks ago we took our children to explore Texas’ state Capitol Building in Austin. We checked the Texas State Capitol website and slid in just in time for the last guided tour of the day. (Free tours are hosted daily.) My kids are 6, 8 and 10, and I wasn’t sure if they…
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Mom and Me Cub Scout Camping- Undistracted time
I can camp in a tent and I don’t abhor camping in a tent but, I’ll admit it, I do not love it, either. Earlier this month my boys’ Cub Scout pack was invited to take part in a Mom & Me camp out. Yep, just the moms and the boys. In tents. In the…
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4 Family ski trip to AngelFire, New Mexico
Want to know a secret about the best place to go to teach your kids to ski? And the best time to go? Three families invited us to join them on a ski trip to Angel Fire, New Mexico over Super Bowl weekend and, to tell you the truth, I could not think of any…
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Making glass (and more) at the Corning Museum of Glass in the Finger Lakes region of New York
This is my ten-year-old son, working with fire, to make a glass pendant at the Corning Museum of Glass in the Finger Lakes region of New York: Can I just say that the Corning Museum of Glass rocks? Because it does. Really. My kids loved making glass, watching others form glass into art and they…
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12 Days of Christmas: My faves
I’ve really enjoyed celebrating the 12 days of Christmas with 7 other bloggers this year. I learned a lot from each blogger’s posts and I had a blast compiling my 12 days of tips, too. Here are a few of my favorites from each of the other sites participating: Looking to make some really clever…