Where Globe-Trotting meets Beach-Combing
We kept it simple this year with a family date to O’Connor Brewing Company, a brewery about a mile from our house. We’d heard it was family friendly. With picnic-style benches, dogs, other babies, and a lot of ambient noise, it totally was. The brews are charmingly named after local nautical themes. We got a…
I walked into the grocery store and it hit me: not only is there no gaudy display of King Cakes, plastic babies and shiny beads—there’s no King Cake in the bakery section at all. What. And they call this the South. Well you know what? The one-fifth of my life I’ve spent in Pensacola manifested…
We were not defeated by the Virginia Aquarium this time! How did we swing this victory, you ask? Three easy steps to success: 1. Chris came! 2. The stroller did not come! 3. We went on a Friday, not MLK weekend! Walking through the dark, twisting passages this time I realized it was absolute fun…
“The mere animal pleasure of traveling in a wild unexplored country is very great.” ~Dr. David Livingstone The British missionary explorer! An adventurous American journalist! The Sultan of Zanzibar! Of course I picked “The Daring Heart of David Livingstone—exile, African slavery, and the publicity stunt that saved millions” by Jay Milbrandt FOR FREE to read and…
Sometimes my kids hate me. Sometimes they both get sick the morning Chris leaves for four days. Sometimes they stagger naps and calls of nature to where someone is always crying and someone is always poopy. Sometimes my kids wake up every two freaking hours all night when they should be sleeping three times that…
“Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.” ~ Henry Fielding Oolong Rouge Tea is a classic oolong blended with rose buds. I bought in Beijing after a Gungfu Chinese tea ceremony, literally “making tea with effort,” on my first trip to China. Oolong Rouge Tea is mellow and slightly fruity with hints of…
Our visit to the Virginia Aquarium was a complete disaster. It was ridiculously crowded. Isaac was both tired AND tired of potty training. He decided to forego the toilets and ran around hitching up his soggy pull up. He was overstimulated and I was slow moving—the stroller slowed me waaaay down, stranger’s kids kept trying…
