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The Best Fall Family Adventures Don’t Always Need a Destination
Sometimes the best family adventures don’t require elaborate plans or expensive vacations. Join our family of seven for a spontaneous fall road trip to Paducah, Kentucky, filled with murals, playgrounds, ice cream, and memories.
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Three Boys, Three Little Ones, Two Locations, and Not a Single Adult in Charge of Their Own Destiny
One tenth birthday, three boys running wild at St. Louis’s City Museum, three little ones keeping Grandma busy, two demolished bags of Crispy Fruit, and a $220 decision that turned one Saturday into a whole lot of future adventures.
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40 for 40: The Places I Want to Go Next — Part One
Ten destinations kicking off my 40th-birthday travel wishlist—from a million-book bookstore to waterfalls, ghost tours, and the Florida Keys. Naturally, I’m already itching to load up the kids and hit the road!
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Speaking of Collecting… Places? That’s a Collection of Mine, Too — And It Keeps Growing!
Apparently, I collect places exactly like I collect books. Places we’ve been, places we love, places we stumble across, and a completely unreasonable number still on my list. Welcome to my other TBR: To Be Roamed. 📚📍
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Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument: Teaching My Kids About History
Birmingham holds some of the most important and heartbreaking stories in American history. As a mother of five, I’m planning a family trip to the Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument to help my children understand segregation, the Civil Rights Movement, and why remembering our history matters.
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I Could Have Stayed at Giant’s Causeway All Day
Seven years later, Giant’s Causeway is still one of the places in Northern Ireland I can’t stop thinking about. Some places really are better than the pictures.
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We Take Five Kids Everywhere — And No, We’re Not Waiting Until They’re Older
Traveling with five kids under 10 isn’t always easy—or cheap, quiet, or particularly sane. But we’re not waiting until they’re older to show them the world. Here’s why we take our five kids everywhere, chaos and all. ❤️
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I Detoured for the Bell Witch. It Was Closed.
I was 8½ months pregnant when a sign for the Bell Witch Cave convinced me we absolutely needed to get off the interstate. We took the detour. The gate was closed. I’m still mad about it ten years later.
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18-Hour Road Trip with 2-Month-Old Twins — And GO!
Five kids. Two-month-old twins. An 18-hour drive from Missouri to Maryland. Somehow this seemed like a perfectly reasonable vacation plan—and honestly, I’d do it again.
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Why Do I Take 5 Kids Everywhere?
People told us having kids would mean giving up road trips, spontaneous adventures, and basically having a life. We decided to test that theory—with five kids in tow.
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