Family Vacations
Planning Your Family Vacation
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008Families with purpose are families who dream together and work together to make their dreams and goals a reality.
I spent hours and hours planning our family vacation to Disney world. I read the right books, visited and subscribed to all the popular websites, made reservations in advance, and when all of it was done I [...]
STOP IT! - Keeping Your Cool on Family Vacations
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008A family with purpose is a family who acknowledges their problems and who work together for resolutions. They deal with their problems and issues with open communication and with confidence.
STOP IT! My yelling these two little words into the backseat of the car is usually the first sign that our family vacation is beginning to [...]
How to Create a Family Travel File
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 A family with purpose is a family who strives to manage and balance their lives and who work diligently to prevent their lives from being controlled by outside factors. A family with purpose sets priorities and lives their lives accordingly.
You are thumbing through a magazine and find an article on a really neat fun place [...]
The Good Times ALWAYS Outweigh the Bad
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008What I Think I Know - A monthly tongue in cheek commentary of things I’ve learned (or so I think)….
I think I was probably about 8 or 9 years old when my parents, older brother, and I took a two week vacation out west in a non-air conditioned station wagon. We were on our way to [...]
Family Travel Goals
Monday, April 14th, 2008My kids are big dreamers. Recently we sat down as a family to set some family vacation goals and at the top of the family’s list was a family vacation to Hawaii. Obviously the kids don’t grasp the magnitude of what a family vacation for 6 will cost, but since they outnumber us (parent’s remember [...]
Getting Back Into The Groove After a Family Vacation
Monday, July 16th, 2007Sleeping in, relaxing by the pool, spending quality time with the family, and having wonderful memories are all the great aspects of family vacations and frankly the reasons most families take a family vacation year after year. But with all of the great fun, getting back into the groove of things after the vacation [...]
He Misses Me
Monday, July 9th, 2007While at home and going about our busy lives, my husband often takes the time to quietly complain about my compulsiveness. My need to have order, control, and a chaos free life he does not always appreciate. How I can’t go anywhere with dishes in the sink, how I can’t leave for vacation [...]