Winter at George Washington’s Mt. Vernon
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Arlington Cemetery is one of those places that you have to visit when you come to Washington DC. The cemetery is beautiful, peaceful, saddening and yet hopeful. Visiting with young kids takes away a bit of the opportunity for contemplation, but my hope is in a trade off of small seeds of impression planted in
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The kids each received a few packets of hot chocolate in their stockings for Christmas this year, and we’ve slowly been working through them. Some days have definitely not been hot chocolate days, recently. High of 82 in Virginia? In FEBRUARY? Can’t complain about the sunshine, though ;) (PS- these were edited with the Ruby
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Recently we drove several hours south of DC to pick up a tabletop that my husband had commissioned from custom woodworker. The woodworker’s son is a colleague of my husband’s and we were graciously invited to enjoy their farmland and lumber mill. Our boys didn’t want to leave. ;) Yet another indication that our eventual
Pin ItI love living in an area that has four seasons. Fall and Spring are my favorites, and I look forward to fall activities all year long. Over the past two falls we’ve visited several farms in the Northern Virginia and I wanted to share three of my favorites. Fall Farm Activities in Northern Virginia |
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Life gets busy, doesn’t it? We have all the best intentions of getting out to explore this area of the country; there is so much to see and experience! However, by the time the weekend rolls around after a frenetic week of long work days, kid activities, day-to-day stressors and dog problems (we have a 1
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To round out Spring Break this year, we went on a super quick trip down to the Middle Peninsula region and stayed in the cutest little rental house in White Stone, Virginia. The boys were ecstatic to find a small sandy beach where they could play in the waves and dig in the sand. For dinner
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Sometimes I wish I could live on an Apple Farm. But, usually, those are days when it is brilliantly sunny, warm and I’ve been wooed by the magic of pie, or cider donuts, or hard cider. Then, I remember that there are many cold, windy, worrisome and wearying days associated with running a large farm.
Pin ItWhile trip planning I usually Google for “must-dos” in whatever city we are head to, then pick a few things from the top of the list and a few from the middle to get a good feeling for what is most popular and what might be largely undiscovered gems. Hollywood Cemetery was pretty high up
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Usually, when trip planning I have an internal debate with myself “Do I have enough ‘kids’ activities? Or does it not matter and they can just learn how to be little humans in an adult world?” While I’d love to say that they always flawlessly blend into adult scenes, that isn’t the case… so travel
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During our journey from Sicily to Alabama we spent a few days in Virginia. Colonial Williamsburg was on the plan, and after struggling through the I-64 traffic from Norfolk… holy cow that was no joke… we made it out to the site, slathered on our sunscreen and got ready to brave the heat and humidity.
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