by Francie | Mar 7, 2013 | Family, Travel
On vacation, moms don’t want to pack their superhero capes. We work hard during the week doing dishes faster than a speeding bullet. Managing multiple schedules in a single bound. Tackling heavy bags of groceries with more power than a locomotive. Next family...
by Francie | Nov 29, 2012 | Family, Travel
Touring San Francisco is always a colorful adventure. With my brothers in town for the holiday, we wanted to eat our way through this great city and experienced the sights. I used to know like the back of my hand. I lived there for eight years. Now in the burbs,...
by Francie | Jul 20, 2012 | Family, Travel
BEAUTIFUL! (Gustavus) A lot of tough girls and guys out there are inspired by the Alaska trip and asking for specs. It’s a big state and truly the last frontier, literally untouched. It took some sorting for us to pick our trip. We are not cruise people, hence the...
by Francie | Jul 13, 2012 | Family, Travel
Alaskan Taxi We are back from South East Alaska where my family and I stayed for a week. And no, we did not do a cruise. Funny how those two are an automatic pair, like it’s in the human DNA to think Alaska is to cruise as air is to breathing. We flew into Juneau...
by Francie | Apr 17, 2012 | Family, Travel
Visions of warm, beachy vacations danced in our heads. Tropical trips in faraway places created a nice, spring break tradition in the last two years. A taste of the good life became an expectation, a “necessity”. Next in line? The endless possibilities ended...
by Francie | Mar 22, 2012 | Family, mom, Travel
MOM imploded, again. The Master Of Multitasking took on one task too many and it wasn’t a “just say no” to something that did it. A husband traveling nonstop for two months, missing his kids’ music performances, baseball games, Boy Scout meetings and worst of all,...