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July 2008
Theme: “Escapes, Real and Imagined”
A Month of Escapes, Real and Imagined: What Did You Miss?
Wrapping up this month of wandering (in fact or just in mind) feels like settling in again, happily, after a trip. It was so good to be away , and it is so good to be home . We listened to our favorite summer music; we listened to our favorite children's books on CD . We used our best travel lifesavers , and we leveraged the pages and pages of info in all of our favorite family travel
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SavvyPicks: Best Family Travel Resources
As you know by now in our meander through a month's worth of daydreaming about escapes, we truly adore getting away with our families. And we are daunted by it, too. When we do set our sights on different environs, we turn to the following essential resources for planning, packing, investigation and inspiration. Here are our Savvy-est picks for family travel resources: The Savviest
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Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Still looking for an easy summer escape from the grind and the routine? There's one ready made for preschoolers and parents at every ball park in the country. Yup, these kids of ours really enjoy an afternoon at a baseball game. The pleasures are many: spotting favorite players, keeping score, hot dogs, popcorn and a little lemonade, perhaps a nice nap during the middle innings (we can always
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All the Way to China
When you can barely conceive of the other side of town, the other side of the world can sound awfully intriguing. We know certain small explorers who have imagined that they might be able to get all the way to China through a hole in the ground, if they could just dig it deep enough. They send their dolls and action figures down to check if there is a light at the end of the tunnel they haven't
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An Escape on a Sugar Cone! Let's Have Some Ice Cream!
Nothing says summer like a drippy, delicious ice cream cone. Except maybe a drippy, delicious ice cream clutched in the mitts of your flush-cheeked preschooler! Consider it a newly declared national holiday -- go get an ice cream today! Chocolate dipped, sprinkles, banana split, cup or cone. Gelato, frozen custard, shaved ice, homemade, storebought. Just go! Looking for the absolute best ice
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Savvy Picks for December, 2008
Our top ten posts about the wonders of rituals and routines:
- A Season of Rituals
- Savvy Welcomes Betsy Brown Braun on Helping Keep the Fa-La-La in the Holidays with Your Children
- Savvy Picks: Best Children's Books of 2008
- Savvy Welcomes Lyn Colwell and Corey Colwell-Lipson on Greening the Holidays
- Teaching Your Child About Giving Instead of Getting at the Holidays
- Homemade Gifts to Make with Preschoolers
- How to Keep Rituals a Bit Flexible, a Little Lively, and a Lot Unexpected
- Savvy Welcomes Ginger Carlson on How to Give Experiences Not More Things
- Inspired Indoor Activities for the Shortest Day of the Year
- Holidays Are Delicious
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