Category: Florida

  • Taking the Kids to the Edison & Ford Winter Estates

    Taking the Kids to the Edison & Ford Winter Estates

    Visiting the Edison & Ford Winter Estates with Kids When daddy has to get away on business in our home state of Florida, I’m the first to arrange an adventurous family field trip to travel along. This week, we drove across Alligator Alley from the East Coast to the West Coast for a couple of…

  • What is a Maelstrom? Homeschool Learning at EPCOT

    If you have traveled to EPCOT you have probably taken a ride on the Maelstrom in the Norway pavilion.  It’s one of the few rides in the World Showcase so kids usually convince their parents to try it at least once. The Maelstrom includes a water ride on a dragon-headed Viking “ship”.  During your journey you will see…

  • carousel

    Step right up! Tokens, please… What are you waiting for? Enjoy the Breeze! It’s carvings so intricate- Paintings- just perfect. Fairy tale horses waiting Just to be pet. Touch  your hand to her reign, One foot in a stirrup, Whoosh, up you swing- Brings her (and you) to life with A skip and a gallop!…

  • Moving Day

      Blog moving is just about as fun as house-moving. HAH! Something we’re all too familiar with… Let’s see… in the past 11 years since Luis and I met, I’ve lived… …Jupiter, Florida …Orlando, Florida …Myrtle Beach, South Carolina …Las Vegas, Nevada …Europe- all over, but mostly from the back of our Volvo XC90 (Spain, Italy, France,…

  • Permacation

    I love & live in these Crocs at the beach.  Living at the beach really has its share of life lessons. One of the loudest for me has been that life can be a perma-cation. We haven’t always lived at the beach, but it’s something I’ve dreamt of since I was a little girl and…