With 2015 now here and holiday travel behind us, it is time to start planning that next family trip. If you are interested in learning more about family travel that costs less and means more, I wanted to share an event with all of you. Dia of The Deal Mommy blog is hosting her second …
As 2014 is coming to a close, I’ve seen lots of my favorite travel bloggers posting some great wrap-ups of their years in travel. Naturally, I wanted to join the fun. This past year was a blast for our traveling family. We took our first flights with Baby C, got passports for the kiddos and …
My family is in a travel-planning rut. There are hundreds of places on our travel wish list. We have enough airline miles and hotel points that we don’t have the break the bank to travel to many of them. But we are already well into December and we find ourselves without Presidents Day weekend or …
As I near the 2 year anniversary of Trips With Tykes later this month, I’ve been reflecting a bit on the reasons for this blog. A tad sentimental – I know. But since this isn’t a money-making endeavor at the moment, there has to be something else driving me to spend hours of my (very …
On our recent trip to Hong Kong, one poignant experience really stood out to me that crystallizes why my husband and I have decided to travel so much with our kids. During our time at Hong Kong Disneyland, our five year old daughter naturally paid a visit to the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique to be transformed into …
When I launched this blog in 2012, I started it off with a post about how parents should track their children’s travels. Having a list of all the airports, airlines, and other details might be a nice addition to the baby book for your jetsetting little one. As has become an annual Trips With Tykes …
Now that the newest addition to my family is not so new anymore, I recently had the chance to leave him at home and take not one — but two(!) — weekend trips without him. One was for a bachelorette party of a friend in March and another was for a college reunion weekend with …
A couple of weeks ago, we received two envelopes from the US State Department containing brand new passports for both kids. Although we have traveled all over the USA, we have never traveled out of the country with either of our children. But that is soon about to change, so it was time to get …
If you are a parent of a small child and have a spouse who travels for work, you probably have been known to curse those business trips on occasion! Especially those times where you are doing meals, bedtimes, and errands all by yourself while your significant other stays in the lap of luxury on an …
I’ve called this blog Trips with Tykes in the hopes that it would be helpful to all parents traveling with small children. But the reality is that I’ve never actually taken a trip with tykes (plural) as I only have one child. I’m happy to announce, however, that this is soon about to change! Baby …