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| Welcome the new web-enabled Travels with Baby eBook! |
How to spend Palm Friday in Costa Rica? Build your own beach hut on the Pacific. If you enjoyed last Friday’s Sunset at Playa Hermosa Photo Fave, here’s a glimpse of how you can pass the hours (and hours) of the afternoon with your kids on this family-friendly beach, while taking a break from the…
Those of you who have read the Acknowledgments in Travels with Baby know that my mother was the A #1 reason I was able to finish all of the research and writing that went into the 300+ page book at a time when you might have thought I didn’t stand a snowflake’s chance in a sweatlodge of…
For the past several months, I’ve been coming to terms with how finishing a book is not like the metaphor of pregnancy and birth so many nice people suggest it is. Nope.
Sure, there is the frequent need to pop antacids and eat strange foods, the unpredictable mood swings, the feeling that you can never get good rest at night and need a nap most days, and as the due date gets closer you start to wonder how you can possibly last (or survive) another month at the rate you’ve been going–while in the back of your mind you keep wondering, “What is this new little creature going to look like?”
Over the weekend, I had the privilege of being with my grandmother as she peacefully rested through her last full day with us, with my mother and I sharing favorite stories and a game of Scrabble (her favorite game) at her side. I have been so incredibly lucky to know my grandma for 40 years,…
Heads up to my Bay Area friends and those of you who will be visiting our City by the Bay between now and May 30th! Red Tricycle (sponsor of this post-thank you!) has partnered with some of the Bay Area’s “awesomest” family attractions and activity suppliers (seriously, I’m drooling after reading over them all) to…
If your family will be flying in to our out of Juan Santamaria International Airport (SJO), there are a few good reasons to plan on spending two or three nights in the small city of Alajuela, where the airport is located (nope, it’s not actually in San Jose). If you’ll be visiting Costa Rica with…