Flying with your Kids How to Keep Your Sanity, Part III   You survived preparation and you kept them occupied at the gate.  Now comes the most challenging time, keeping them occupied on the plane.  In parts 1 and 2 of my...
REAL – ID Act:  How will affect you as a Pennsylvania resident? In the past few weeks you may have seen an advertisement on your television regarding REAL ID.  The advertisement talks about getting a REAL ID card but you...
  We have all seen the viral videos where parents gather the kids together and in announce “Kids we are going to Disney”. Joyous Rapture ensues and the parents are heroes. There is laughter and tears of joy. Everyone is...
Why use a travel agent to plan your vacation? If you love to travel you know how easy it is to book your trip online.  After the kids go sleep you get on the computer, do a few hours of...
I recently went on a business trip for work, leaving my 5 month old (and 3 and 4 year-old) home with dad. As we are still exclusively breastfeeding, it was essential that I pump and store while traveling. As...
Nowadays travel has become one of the most important and innate human desires. For any individual, there are great benefits of travel, extending beyond just a break from daily routine. Traveling increases your creativity and makes you more open-minded....
With holidays reserved for time with grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins, and summer normally busy with camps, sports and other activities, my kid’s time off from school for Spring Break has become, over the past few years, the one...
A few weeks before school started our family decided to take a day trips outside of Pittsburgh. We thought it would be a fun way to end the summer and I was excited to go somewhere new.  We had...
Planning a vacation can be a lot of work, especially when children are involved. Do you drive? Do you fly? A lot will depend on the ages of your children, what your family dynamic is, how well your children...
The amount of solo female travelers taking vacations has increased dramatically in the last five years.  We are now in a world where as women we want to experience new things, and nothing will stop us from doing it. ...

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