As some may know, but many don’t, my family homeschools. Our travels have quite a lot to do with that. We were, once, traditional public-school-going folks. But the state we live in has a limit to the number of unexcused absences (anything that isn’t excused by a doctor) and we exceeded those each year. Before…
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This week’s p52 theme is “Drink Up!”. While I thought about this I realized my daily drinks of choice are an lovely Irish Breakfast Tea in the morning and then water the rest of the day. I rarely deviate from that but there are 4 drinks that are always in my house. This is actually…
I am spending this week preparing for my workshops at Kansas City Irish Fest, so I thought we would revisit a post from a couple years ago. If you’re planning to come to KCIF make plans to see me share travel tales on the Kids’ Stage both Saturday and Sunday. You can also find me…
A couple of months ago I was privileged to offer my readers a chance to win a $5000 Austin Lehman Adventure. Entries poured in from Family Rambling and other travel blogs- nearly 3000 entries were received. And the lucky winner had entered through Family Rambling! Which means that I won a matching prize- and now…
There was a time before I was married that I was convinced I was bad luck. Or rather, my planning anything was bad luck. Like the time I bought my first house and planned a house warming party- my brother’s girlfriend died. Or the time I planned a weekend canoeing trip with girlfriends- my friend’s…
Not long ago I heard a “top travel agent” speak about travel to Ireland. I love Ireland so I was hoping to pick up a few tips myself. While she had many great tips on getting there- and back- I found myself disagreeing with what she suggested to do when you actually arrived. When we…
Kansas City Irish Fest, one of Kansas City’s favorite festivals, takes place Labor Day weekend, Friday thru Sunday, at Crown Center. Though this was our first time at the festival, 2009 marked the 7th year of celebrating Celtic pride in “Cowtown”. Though I had browsed the website and tried to keep up with band announcements…
As I was editing pictures today for an upcoming piece from our Massachusetts travels I laughed when I edited this one: It reminded me that I had taken a photo of Doug beside an actual palace guard at St. James Palace when we went to London in 2003- before we had kids. I had to…
Since I had been to Killarney and County Kerry previously I had things in mind that I wanted to share with my family. And, of course, there were many things we didn’t do. These are just a few other activities close to Killarney. Ring of Kerry The Iveraugh peninsula is probably the most traveled area…
It’s pretty much a given that a 18 month old and a 3 year old don’t care a bit about nature or history and even castles get dull after you’ve explored a few. I found an easy way to keep the girls occupied when they were getting a bit bored. Ireland is filled with faeries,…
