Blog Recommendation

There are only a few blogs that I stalk. You know, checking them regularly and noticing when they don't post for a few days, and the like. Today I want to recommend one of my favorites so you can enjoy it also.

Suitcases and Sippy cups

A family with 4 boys who travel the world and the best part is the mom who writes it, keeps it real. This isn't a fluffy, everything is always perfect blog. This is reality and it's awesome.

Some of my favorite posts and a quote from each so you will understand just how awesome they are:

Childhood Travel Memories
"Clearly, kids can and do remember things from a very early age, and travel especially enhances early memories.  Research shows that being in a new environment and eliminating regular daily interferences actually allows kids to make neural connections that stick."

Open Letter to Kid Haters 
"I have a little speech that I give to my kids whenever we gear up to go somewhere, be it a local outing or a trip around the world.  It goes something like this: “Please remember you are representing your family today.  Please act in a way that reflects positively on the choices we have made.”  Of course those lofty words are really just code for, “please fight your natural tendency to behave like punks, don’t embarrass me, and for the love of all things good, don’t act like one of “those people.” 

Travel Tips Tuesday 
NOT A QUOTE: Each week she co-sponsors Travel Tips Tuesday and people can link their travel tip blog posts, which is a great way to learn from many bloggers. This is one of my current favorites, because we are considering taking our kids on a cruise.

About Me 

"There’s not really anything out of the ordinary going on around here.  We’re just a typical family-a mom and a dad, four kids. All boys.  We are a middle class family living in Middle America right smack in the middle of the suburbs.  We’ve got a house with three bedrooms and 2 ½ baths and two cars.  You won’t be surprised to learn that one of them is a minivan.  In a word, we are average. Average."

"Let me give you a peek at my totally average list of things to do this week.

1. Take the kids to Little League practice (repeat three times)
2. Clean the cheetos out from under the couch cushions.
3. Stain treat and rewash the load of laundry that was washed with a ball of play-doh
4. Finalize the plans to move the entire family into a camper trailer to travel the country.

Just a typical suburban mom to-do list, right?  Except for that bit about leaving everything behind to follow our traveling dreams- at least that’s what people keep telling us.  They say it’s out of the box.  They say it’s the road less traveled.  Sometimes they say it’s just plain crazy.  They definitely don’t think it’s normal. "

I could go on and on and on. Did I mention how much I love this blog? Go check it out and if you are like me, you will get sucked in and end up reading every post and just wanting more!