Staycation activities

Who wants to go to Italy?  The better question might be, who doesn’t want to go to Italy?  But Covid-19 is still making a visit to …

One of our favorite ways to conjure memories of a favorite vacation is to make some of the foods we discovered away from home, ideally …

Everybody wants to bake bread these days. As our Covid semi-quarantine rounds on a full year we all crave things that are unique and a …

It can be tricky to find great Halloween activities for tweens and young teens. They’re over face painting and crafts but the really creepy haunted …

Updated march 2020 Following two exotic trips over the winter (Guadeloupe and Senegal), plus spring break jaunt to Pittsburgh, we opted to be relatively frugal …

Updated November 2020 I love books. So do my husband and my daughter. We use fiction and non-fiction books to learn about places we visit. …

Updated May 2020. For better or for worse, your holiday plans are made. The bags are mostly packed, the presents mostly bought and wrapped (unless …

There’s always one week of summer where everyone is home from camp and work but we aren’t going away. We need things to do so …