This is the second installment of my Friday Favorites. On Fridays, I will be sharing some of my favorite things that I’ve found online in the past week. It may be pictures, or it may be things to buy, or places to go. Favorite Website: Tours Departing Daily A site dedicated to photographs of Disneyland…
Introducing Prince William and Catherine Middleton! In the Fairy Tale wedding of the year, Prince William and Kate (now going by Catherine) wed at the beautiful Westminster Abbey amongst their family and friends. If you are one of the 2 billion people watching (as I was) you’ll know it was certainly THE fairy tale event…
Eleni’s New York – A Royal Wedding Gift Box of Cookies As the dust settles upon Buckingham Palace, and Prince William and his new bride Catherine Middleton move onto their new lives as Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the dust is also beginning to settle across the rest of the world. Many of us have…
Do your kids watch Dinosaur Train? Mine do, and love the show. Which is why I am looking forward to this exclusive event that I’ll be attending next weekend. I’m even more pleased because one of my readers and their family will also have the chance to attend. I have a four pack of tickets…
This past week I had the pleasure of a free afternoon in New Orleans with a good friend who shares my fiber addiction. Not the edible kind – the wearable kind. As we wandered through the French Quarter we both had a similar idea. Find the local knitting shop and see what they had in…
When I was a child we took frequent vacations. Hotels in the Catskills, Ski Lodges in Vermont. The ones I recall most fondly were the “All Inclusive” resorts. This has me thinking more critically about the sorts of places I’d like to visit with my family this summer. I’m hoping one of my readers will…
I don’t get away nearly enough. Work and parenting four kids has me hopping. The idea of travel to a far away and exotic place is so tempting, but in all honesty, the time it would take to get there, is sort of a deal breaker. I might be able to squeeze a long weekend…
It’s easy to forget what beauty lies in nature all around us. Not a mile from our home, nestled in an arroyo beneath a bustling overpass, is a whole other world. A world filled with exotic bugs, birds with strange calls, and the rushing waters of a creek. We love to trek down to the…
We’ve been looking for the perfect vac for our casa for about six years now. Shout out your quest for vacs on Twitter and you’ll be greeted with a flurry of responses, brands, styles. Everyone has a tip, a trick a brand and a style. Before you know it, you’ve compiled a list that reads…
When I was a kid I would sit and watch Ted Koppel with my parents. Whatever channel or show he was on, for whatever reason, his style of reporting always intrigued me. I’d even stay up till midnight on a school night, to see him on Nightline. Ted immersed himself in his stories and in…
