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I’ve written an updated post for this. Take a look at my 2017 edition Road Trip to Disneyland It’s Canada to California or bust. Complete with 4 kids packed into a Pontiac Montana minivan, we hit the open road. The goal? To survive the Road trip to Disneyland Ah, road trips. Aren’t road trips really just one of those things …

Worried about the summer sun? Protect your kids this summer by knowing the right type of sunscreen to buy and how much to use In the 1990’s, tanning beds were THE thing to do. For many of the current 40 somethings, wrinkly, dry, leathery skin was light years away and the idea of using sunblock was laughable. If you weren’t …

How to survive the summer with your kids It is coming. You notice it first as an uncomfortable niggle behind your right ear, but it quickly moves to your neck in the form of a tennis ball of tension. Spreading down into your arms, you feel as though you are covered by one of those lead blankets they drape you …

You know that sinking feeling you get when you are all dressed up for some event and realize that you are either dressed in the wrong gear or worse, you are horrendously late for the festivities? You’ve made an effort to extract the yogurt from your hair, and even put on some makeup so you don’t look like one of …

You don’t need a license to have a baby, which is really too bad in many respects. You’ve weighed the pros and cons of which baby necessities to buy and discovered that the one thing you can’t really do without is diapers. Unfortunately for you, you have no idea how to change a diaper. This is how you change a …