On the Go with Baby – How to make impromptu travel with baby, even just out to a restaurant, easier and less stressful!

Once upon a time you could just grab your jacket and head out to dinner.  Throw a few things in a weekend bag and off you went!  But that was before you had kids.  When baby comes along, suddenly, even a quick bite at a local restaurant seems to require a mountain of diapers, [...]

Great Travel Toys for Kids that You Can Get at the Dollar Store

Travel with kids means toys and preferably new ones.  New toys are more exciting than familiar ones, but buying new toys every time you travel can get expensive.  Here are some easy ideas for travel toys that will keep your kids entertained while you travel for next to nothing.  In fact, you may already [...]

Make Travel with Kids Fun: How to Choose Travel Toys

On our first trip with our daughter, we brought along lots of new baby travel toys.  Most of them were big hits, but some of the travel toys just didn’t interest her that much.  After all, we’re all different, and kids are no exception.  Given that some people don’t even (gasp!) like chocolate, there [...]

Travel with Baby: Flying Tips for Fearless Family Travel

Travel – especially air travel – seems to be full of hassles these days.  Between endless security lines, fees for everything and non-existent leg room it might be enough to make you think air travel with baby would be just too much to deal with.  But before you put away your Ziploc bag with [...]

How to Enjoy Travel with Kids: Five Ways to Travel Proof Your Child!

Travel is a huge part of our life.  Before we had children, we had traveled to over 50 countries together.  So, when we became parents, we knew we definitely wanted to continue to travel with kids as well.  Naturally, travel with kids is more challenging than travel without kids.  Especially when travel with kids [...]

Flying with Kids: Why Airport Hotels with Shuttles Make for Good Travel Mornings

You’re traveling with kids (or even more challenging: traveling with baby) in tow and your travel plans include an early morning flight.  Once upon a time, back in the days when it was just two of you, you put on a brave face and staggered out of bed at some ungodly hour to catch [...]

How Not to Lose a Thing While You Travel with Kids (Except Maybe Your Mind–We’re Still Looking for Ours…)

It is amazing to us just how much more stuff goes along with you when you travel with baby.  Or travel with toddler.  Or now, when we travel with baby and toddler.  It seems the smaller you are, the more things you seem to need.  The stakes are often higher, too.  Lose your new [...]