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The long road to Christmas

Posted on December 22, 2007 by Cool Dad

It’s 7:00 am and I sit in a dark living room. We want to leave as early as possible to drive 1.5 hours to Cool Mum’s family’s house. Too bad that the other two are asleep and nothing has been … Continue reading →

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Europe with a baby: planning an itinerary (part 2)

Posted on December 11, 2007 by Cool Mum

1 baby carried in a hotsling2 budget-traveling parents3 bags (backpack, small duffel, and diaper bag)3 places of lodging over 15 nights8 towns and cities visited20 hours spent in airplanes over the course of 4 flights20 hours spent on 12 different … Continue reading →

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Europe with a baby: planning an itinerary (part 1)

Posted on December 11, 2007 by Cool Mum

More on lessons learned from our trip to Europe in October… I spent hours and hours and hours of my life planning this trip. Some unexpected changes had to be made at the last minute, so our itinerary ended up … Continue reading →

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Baby’s got a lotta bags

Posted on November 22, 2007 by Cool Dad

This morning, we packed up and headed to Cool Mum’s parents’ house for Thanksgiving. As usual, it took twice as long to pack the baby’s stuff than ours. I’m continually amazed that someone so small could require so much stuff … Continue reading →

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Europe with a baby: packing

Posted on November 17, 2007 by Cool Mum

I really pride myself on packing lightly whenever we go to Europe. We’re both REALLY frugal, but traveling is one thing we allow ourselves to spend some money on. In order to keep the trip cheap, we’ve found that we … Continue reading →

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