Linking up today with Toddler Summer‘s Six Word Wednesday and with The Paper Mama After consecutive days of walking around Rome and the Vatican, we decided to do something more kid-friendly. And what’s more kid-friendly than the best gelato in Rome?? Thanks to some quick internet research, we figured out that Giolitti, a gelato shop…
We left off yesterday when we were preparing to embark on the unthinkable. A 3 1/2 hour Vatican tour with our 3-year-old son. After careful consideration, we selected an early morning Sistine Chapel tour through Walks of Italy that opened prior to the general public, which meant we’d skip the notoriously long line to get…
Six word Wednesday…. yes, we are certifiable crazy and took our 3-year-old on a 3 and a half hour Vatican tour two days after Christmas. I shot this picture of HJ at the end…. and yes, we did tip our tour guide. Tomorrow I’ll share with you the literal ups and downs of visiting our…
I’d have settled for “boring” but our family trip to Cologne, Germany was, well, horrible. I wasn’t even going to blog about it because let’s face it, “Oh, I’m so disappointed, my weekend trip to Germany wasn’t fun” sounds an awful lot like complaining. In the spirit of blogging about the good, the bad, and…
This is another post in a series aimed at helping parents who travel with toddlers. You can read more tips here, here, and here. A few months before our big trip to Iceland, I had the pleasure of having a Chipotle lunch with two of my favorite Paris(ish) bloggers, Expat Edna and Emily from ?…
Traveling with a toddler use to mean bringing a ton of toys, books, and games, but with the huge increase in toddler-friendly apps for phones and tablets, bulky bags are no more. We have iPhones and a Kindle Fire, so the apps I’ll talk about today are compatible for those devices. On our Kindle Fire,…
Flying with a toddler can be fun, if you plan ahead and put your “entertaining” parenting face on. To help anyone traveling with a toddler in the air, I’ve included a few tips we’ve been given by experienced travelers as well as a few that we’ve picked up on our own. Tip #1: Preparation is…
Traveling with a toddler is stressful, but here’s another helpful tip… let them pack their own bags. I know what you’re thinking…. “Let them pack their own bag?? Are you crazy??” Yes, I know how it sounds. However allowing a toddler the opportunity to feel like they have control over their suitcase and their upcoming…
Traveling with a toddler isn’t easy, no matter how much you might prepare or not. There has been frustrations, meltdowns, denial, refusals (my personal fav), whining….. all of these things from a seemingly easy-going child. How I’ve handled it has largely depended on how I was feeling, rather than how HJ was acting…. the difference…
Until very recently, I typically read blogs about mommas and babies, not realizing there is an entire world beyond spit-up, middle America, and reality television. I love those things, but I’m finding that by literally transporting my own life, and that of our family’s to Paris, France, has truly opened my eyes. I still enjoy…
