How to Go on a Trip Without Your Kids in 5 Easy Steps

My West Coast Trail Experience aka What Adventures are Really Like as a Mom

Me, looking for cell service (photo by The Lost Girl's Guide to Finding the World)

We all see them--- on Instagram, at Starbucks, at the hairdresser. Those uberfit cool moms who still do amazing things. We see them and we think HOW THE HECK ARE YOU BENCHPRESSING MINIVANS when I can't even get my kids into the car?

Permission to Be a Person

Beach Baby! 5 Steps to Enjoying a Hot Holiday with Baby or Toddler

Gabrielle, ready for the beach.

How to Fly Carry-On With Baby PLUS Packing Checklist

"Can I check that? I'll pay extra."

 Just kidding. The toddler, on the other hand... 

The Top 10 Reasons to Travel with Baby

Fly, Baby, Fly.

Love travel? This post was featured on the amazing world travel blog, The Lost Girl's Guide to Finding the World. Check it out. Ashlyn is a blogger to follow.

Congratulations! You're a parent! In the nine months prior to meeting your tiny human, you've already experienced scads of unsolicited advice on everything from nutrition to nannies from everyone (your mother, the parking attendant at the mall, even that nice panhandler outside the bank).

October Review in Numbers

 11. 02. 2015

South Saskatchewan River, Saskatoon, SK

 

It's the beginning of a new month and time to look back at the grumbling and the grace that was October! 

Kapso-where?

It's hard to believe we've been in Kapsowar, Kenya for 10 days now, but we are starting to get settled.

There are so many things to write about, like "what do we do all day?" and "what is God teaching us here?" but the internet is slow and we've been busy so I thought I would at least fire off a post about a few aspects of life on station at Kapsowar Hospital, and what's the same and what's different, both from home and from our expectations when we arrived.

Here are a few first impressions (and generalizations) we've noticed so far.

Why I love travelling but hate getting there

If there were a way to remain gainfully employed and bring Nathan (and now Emily) along, I would be happy galavanting around our fine planet nine months of the year... Saskatchewan in the summer is really really nice. Shhh. Don't tell. It's our little secret.