My children, Eleanor in particular, have an obsession with rocks. Their obsession is driving my husband crazy, because we have rocks sprawled all over our yard. I have a few rock crafts up my sleeve though. I have had these Elmer's Painters pens for years. I originally got them for a campaign way back when and have completed quite a few crafts with them. I'll share those projects at the bottom of the post. The rocks were gathered by my children at the beach. You technically only need ...
Travel
Affordable Vacation Souvenir
This January we took our family to San Diego. I've shared how the trip was a Christmas present and a few of our experiences: Sea World, the beach and taking 3 kids 6 and under on an airplane! When we were at Sea World, Eleanor wanted to get a snow globe. I quickly noticed a sign that said they were not allowed as carry-ons. It was at this point that we realized we needed a plan. We decided that the kids would each get to pick a pin. Relatively inexpensive and super easy to fit in our ...
Flying With Children
Santa brought the kids plane tickets. You can read more about that here. Quinn has been begging for plane tickets for as long as I can remember. In fact, I'm a little unsure if it was that he wanted to travel to far away places or he really wanted to fly. We were leaving bright and early in the morning. Since we were flying out of Chicago, we had to allow an hour and a half drive time. Quinn came down a million times wondering if it was time to go yet. I'm not entirely sure ...
Sunsets and Sand
I could, and most likely will, dedicate an entire post to traveling with the kids. Today, I want to talk about the fun stuff. Check out our Sea World experience here. We left below freezing temperatures for this and it was every bit as magical as you would expect! We were lucky enough to get our rental car, check-in to our hotel and make it to the beach as the sun was setting. The kids were only suppose to dip in their toes, but then Eleanor and Hudson got knocked over by waves and ...