I have lived in Houston for most of my life, but I’m still discovering amazing new things about my city! Last week, a couple friends and I got the chance to tour a 15 million gallon water cistern underneath Houston. It serviced the city of Houston with drinking water from 1926 until 2007. In 2007…
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Airport Rules Flying Safely With Children
Living in a small town we know everyone and everyone knows us. How do you explain strange danger to a child who has never met a stranger? Thus, my husband and I designed Airport Rules. Three simple rules that cover a lot of issues associate with large public spaces. Airports are massive exciting places for…
Family Book – Gift Idea for Grandparents
I work my way through the house, grabbing random baby supplies I might have forgotten and shove them into reusable grocery bags while the boys run circles around me and use the furniture as gymnastics equipment. The baby has already grown tired of waiting in her car seat and started fussing. I feel frazzled and…
12 Tips For Surviving a 24+ Hour Flight (w/ Layovers)
I recently returned from an excursion to Turkey where I spent two weeks. My flights, with layovers, came out to be 30 hours there and 25 back. You learn a lot about yourself when you are locked in a shuttering steel tube next to a perpetually farting man with nothing but the tiniest of meals…
Gifts for teens before they travel
If your teens are getting ready to go on a trip, there are a few things you can give them to help them have more fun, and maybe even a safer trip too! For a HUGE list of gift guides for teens and tweens check out this master list! This post contains affiliate links Start…
How to Beat the Airline Luggage Fees
I secured a five day trip to Grammy’s house on a cut rate airline for four people for $413.39 round trip. Whoo hoo let’s go!! Problem, luggage, on this airline, even carry-ons, cost money. The airline luggage fees are steep, a carry-on is $55, 1st checked luggage fee is $50. All my ticket savings disappeared…
How to Make Moving Overseas Easier With Children – 6 Tips
Moving to a foreign country is a monumental task. It’s a totally different beast from going on vacation or doing volunteer work for a month or two. Throw children into the mix and it goes from a beast to a whole mutant melting pot of beasts fused together by some inhuman force. I’m not saying…
The Traveler’s Mental Checklist
Traveling is mentally straining. It doesn’t matter if you are going on a bonding road trip with the family or flying by yourself to Iceland to protest the cancellation of Lazytown. Everyone handles travel differently. Some people start packing a month before they even have to leave while others wait until ten minutes before and…
How to save money on flights
People with the extra cash to fly First Class in their fancy chair/beds with glorious plasma TV’s gently glowing them to sleep, have the option to choose whatever flight they want, but those of us who don’t sit on toilets carved from a single, fabled pearl have to go for “economical”. Thus, I, one of…
How to get in the national parks for free
With over 500 national parks in the United States, it can be hard to see all of them with your kids, BUT it just got a little easier! You can visit over 400 of them for free normally, but others have entrance fees. This year, on September 24th in celebration of National Public Lands Day,…