The Active Family

Seven short weeks. That is all that is standing between me and summertime. The heat, the sweat, the pools, the beach.
Oh yeah…forgot to mention the kids. The summer starts for them soon too. Darn it.
My parents will be going to Maine again this year, for 3 weeks. Somehow they thought going the week the kids [...]

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Our second day (first full day) began with me waking before anyone else. Anyone who knows me can tell you that is a miracle in itself, as I am soooo not a morning person.
I french pressed myself a mug of yummy Kopalani coffee (sniff…all gone now!) and quietly made my way down to the shore [...]

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WooHooo!! Now that the 4th is over our Maine trip is closer than ever. I’ve started washing all the linens we are bringing, and tossing random items we’ll need into a box.
That’s actually one of my favorite vacation packing tips. Set aside a designated box for vacation items. As you are going through the house [...]

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Today was, and is, my meal planning day. I don’t really plan each day out down the line, but rather, I figure out a general plan for the week and gather the ingredients that I’ll need.
On vacations like these where I don’t have access to my own kitchen, I like to try to overlap as [...]

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This summer our big family trip will be to Ellsworth, Maine for one week in July. I’m really excited because we are going back to the same lake that my parent’s took my sister and I every summer of my childhood. While the cabins we used to stay at are gone, my parent’s actually found [...]

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