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Fancy Hands Virtual Assistants: A Great Help for Busy Traveling Moms and Dads

Fancy Hands Virtual Assistants: A Great Help for Busy Traveling Moms and Dads

A friend of mine a couple of months ago was trying to find wedding venues, but she was too busy with her international work travel.  She told me about this great online service, Fancy Hands, that was helping her research venues and set up appointments […]

Yellow Fever Vaccination When Pregnant or Breastfeeding?

Yellow Fever Vaccination When Pregnant or Breastfeeding?

In a few weeks I will set off to Haiti with my toddler and my newborn, both of whom are still nursing (aggressively).  After that we’ll also be traveling to Sri Lanka, India, South Sudan, and Kenya for a good part of the year into […]

A New Addition to Our Gypsy Family

A New Addition to Our Gypsy Family

I am taking time in this blog, for those interested, to tell the birth story of our recent arrival and new addition to our gypsy family a few days ago! I have had “write a blog” on my to do list for several weeks now. […]

Gearing Up for a World Tour with a Newborn and Toddler

Gearing Up for a World Tour with a Newborn and Toddler

Every time I travel for work with my toddler there are usually tears involved (on my part).  I usually swear each time that I’m done working- it’s just too hard being a traveling working mom.  But yet I keep doing it again.  Now at 33 […]

Baby Wearing Safety Tips from Baby K’Tan

Baby Wearing Safety Tips from Baby K’Tan

With the holidays approaching, many parents will be gifting/receiving and especially traveling with a baby carrier! To help make this holiday season as safe and cozy as possible, Baby K’Tan is sharing important baby wearing safety tips with everyone (copied from their website) below.  Happy […]

Holiday Travel: Tips for family travel

Holiday Travel: Tips for family travel

Many of you are probably in the midst of planning upcoming holiday travel. Check out my guest post over at Onya Baby’s blog here on tips for family travel during the holidays.  It’s focused on how to make car or airplane travel less stressful and the […]

Preparing to Leave My Toddler Home For a 10 Day Work Trip

Preparing to Leave My Toddler Home For a 10 Day Work Trip

My husband and I are both leaving to Pakistan in about a week.  We’re working together on the same project there (let’s hope our marital bliss will see us through to the end of the project!).  We decided that this time around we will leave […]

Boulder, Colorado with a Toddler

Boulder, Colorado with a Toddler

I’ve been grounded in Chicago since early October, and getting antsy and eager to see an old friend, I made a last minute decision to head to Boulder, Colorado with my toddler for a long weekend.  Boulder is a beautiful place, and pretty toddler-friendly at […]

Using Flip Hybrid Disposable Inserts for International Travel

Using Flip Hybrid Disposable Inserts for International Travel

On our recent trip to Nicaragua we decided to use our Flip hybrid cloth diaper covers with the Flip disposable inserts, rather than bringing along the reusable cloth inserts.  We were happy that we did. Usually we travel with our cloth inserts, but we knew […]

The Art of Hand Expressing Breast Milk

The Art of Hand Expressing Breast Milk

Yes, by hand expressing breast milk I am indeed referring to milking one’s self.  It’s something that 22 months into my  first child’s life never really occurred to me as something I would need to do until I found myself doing it.  It saved my […]