Family Travel
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Zero Waste Grocery Shopping| How to Select Fresh Fruits and Vegetables
That’s me, picking up apples at the farmers market, selecting them by their color palate. What you can’t see is my best friend off-camera reminding me I’m allergic to apples and urging me to put them back before I have an allergic reaction. Simply put, I’m trash at picking fruit, my batting average is 100 if 100 means that I always buy a spoiled bruised fruit. This means there are many times on my travels that I miss out on experiencing the local market culture because I don’t know how to select fresh fruits and vegetables. I’m often left totally at the mercy of predatory stall owners that can spot…
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Micro locks |The tool and products I use to maintain our DIY Sisterlocks
I consider myself to be a bit of a micro locks \ DIY sister lock expert. After seven years of retightening my own micro locks and convincing two other people to let me do their sisterlocks installation. If that’s not enough I’ve watched every video there is to watch about sisterlocks tools, installation and maintenance. What follows s everything I’ve learned on my micro locks journey, including what sisterlocks tool I use to maintain both mine and my child’s hair, both at home and abroad. Micro Locks Retightening Schedule I personally can’t stand to see my scalp so initially had an every other month retightening schedule. Now I retighten with my fingernails whenever…
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Traveling Toddlers | Things to do in New Orleans with kids
New Orleans is jam-packed with not only full of fun things to do for kids, but every bit of the city is infused with lessons I hope to impart on my daughter. New Orleans seems to have mastered what I think is really the goal of any city or person for that matter. The crescent city has truly unlocked its magic. They’ve managed to pinpoint what makes them special and keep to it. As one of my cab drivers, the unofficial tour guides of NOLA so expertly summed it up “Everybody in New Orleans knows they’re interesting.” The weather in New Orleans is like Mombasa, while the architecture is like…
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9 PLACES TO SEE A BIG CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTING IN NYC
My personal opinion as a native New Yorker is that Winter is the worst time to visit the city. New Yorkers are shrowded in black, they keep their heads down, and their extremities guarded. Yet as our skyline becomes swathed in color from the fall foliage, and we begin to think the warm glow of summer was just a dream a different glow spreads across the city. An imported forest of BIG evergreen trees pops up all over NYC. The fanfare that accompanies an NYC tree lighting makes winter just warm enough, it’s as if the universe gives us Christmas to look forward to. On the home front there’s also…
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Fun things to do in Staten Island, New York with kids
Like many native New Yorkers, I’m not familiar with Staten Island, and can probably count on one hand how many times I”ve been there before. Boy was I shocked to find out there are so many fun things to do in Staten Island. Staten Island looks like San Francisco and Houston had a baby and moved to Maryland. I viewed more American flags in one square block per than I’ve seen in any other city I’ve ever been in. It’s as if Staten Island no longer cares to prove its a part of New York, to the city itself but bypass the Big Apple and become a card-carrying member of…
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Coney Island Beach is packed visit these NYC Beaches instead
My idea of paradise is living within walking distance to the beach. NYC made up of a series of islands is full of beaches. My childhood home is a mere fifteen-minute train ride to the closest beach. This year I realized that as much as I needed recharging from the hustle and bustle of NYC, I didn’t make it to the beach nearly as much as I wanted. Realizing I’ve kept myself from my happy place, for thirty years just because the mode of transport that would get me to one of these NYC beaches in 15 minutes was not my feet alone. So this year I an effort to…
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New York City Kids |5 places for Camping with Toddlers
I don’t know if it’s just a certain age kid get to but right around two, every child I encountered in New York City was talking about camping. I’m pretty sure this has more than a little something to do with smores. As a child camping meant being shipped off to some faraway place to learn survival skills, however now that I’m a mom myself I started looking for something a little closer to home to quelch my toddler’s desire to sleep under the stars. What follows is an exhaustive list of all the campgrounds within New York City to take your kids to this summer. New York City has…
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Places to visit in 48 Hours in Nairobi City, Kenya
People often go to Africa for the animal experiences, but Nairobi, Kenya is a bustling cosmopolitan city. To get a real taste of Nairobi you must interact with the people, visit ancient cultures that have lived off the land for generations and rub elbows with the millennials who are shaping the vibrant city scene of Nairobi. First of all, two days in Nairobi city is nowhere, near enough but if you only have a taste of this part of Kenya make it count. If I could only spend two days in Nairobi they’d be Sunday and Monday to get a good variety of places to visit. This list of places…
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Traveling with Toddlers | Checklist for Packing a Toddler Carryon
Of all the tips for traveling with a toddler, the number one tip, to ensure a hassle-free trip when traveling with toddlers is keeping them entertained. Often when you see people traveling with toddlers in tow they’re overloaded with 1 million things traveling with a toddler after 102 plane rides I have whittled down Noon’s carry-on essentials to this checklist for packing her carryon. Coloring book/stickers | what toddler do you know that can resist stickers? Do you know what’s even better than stickers, though? A sticker coloring book combo. This book is the most genius thing I’ve ever purchased. In its tiny size, it contains hours of toddler sized…
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How to Gate Check a Travel Stroller Bag
To be honest I’d always turned up my nose at people packing the large clunky stroller with them at the airport and swore by this stroller but I now fancy myself a jogger and travel with a much larger stroller when traveling domestically. Take these steps to gate check your travel stroller bag and ensure it gets to your destination in one piece, even if your sanity doesn’t. Reasons to use a stroller bag when you travel Protects Stroller from Damage from bag handlers | The number one reason strollers get broken in transit is that they pop open en route and a baggage handler has to try to fold it back down…
