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Alaska and the NW Passage: Armchair or on-the-Water Journeys

Family travel when it might mean the demise of all is no figure of speech for two brothers and a sister who maneuvered their 57-foot boat through the Northwest Passage...

A Jersey Girl’s Ode to the Jersey Shore

“’Cause down the shore everything’s all right.” ---Tom Waits, JERSEY GIRL Some see the Jersey Shore as a travel destination, a place to take the family for a couple of...

Stress-Free Travel is Right Under Your Nose

Air travel can be stressful nowadays with long lines, flight delays and cramped seating.  Add luggage, children, strollers and even pets to the mix and you have a veritable powder...

5 Summer Vacation Ideas for Teens

Teens sometimes get a bad rap. People think they’re hard to please and harder to travel with. But the key to traveling with teens—and keeping the whole family happy—is to...

Best Advice for Planning Your Summer Vacation

Planning your family vacation can be overwhelming--where to go, what to do, how to get there, you name it. There are a lot of details to planning a summer vacation....

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3 Summer Travel Ideas for Toddlers
Traveling Mom with Toddlers3 Summer Travel Ideas for Toddlers

Parents of toddlers – stop limiting your vacations to staycations. This is coming from a mom who has raised a ddler into a traveler once, and is doing it all over again. If you have a toddler, you have anarchy on your hands … trust me, I know! But you don’t have to stick close to home if you [ ... ]

Lincoln Lives on in Central Illinois
TravelingMom with TeensLincoln Lives on in Central Illinois

It may not be Daniel Day Lewis walking the streets of Springfield, Illinois, but there’s likely someone who looks a lot like him. OK, it will be someone who looks a lot like Daniel Day Lewis when he looks a lot like Abraham Lincoln.
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Paradise Point Resort- Tropical Island Escape in San Diego
Midwest TravelingMomParadise Point Resort- Tropical Island Escape in San Diego

Looking for the perfect summer vacation? Dreaming of something tropical and exotic, yet Tahiti just isn’t in your budget? San Diego’s dise Point Resort feels like it’s a world away, yet there’s no passport required. Paradise Point sits on a 44-acre island on Mission Bay, just minutes fr [ ... ]

South Dakota: Where Imagination Guides a Family Vacation
World TravelingMomSouth Dakota: Where Imagination Guides a Family Vacation

Great summer vacations start with planning. Where are we going to go? Where are we going to stay? For my kids one of their all time favorite trips was a road trip through South Dakota.

Our first trip to South Dakota was going to be a quick drive through on our way to somewhere else. Fortunately, we  [ ... ]

Stay Aloft Before Going Aloft at the San Francisco Airport
Pets and Service Dog TravelingmomStay Aloft Before Going Aloft at the San Francisco Airport

It's always refreshing to see a new choice of hotel property near the San Francisco Airport -- and the options have gotten even better recently. Just a half mile from the airport, the hip and ultra modern new Aloft hotel is a great choice for a comfortable stay before or after flying or when vi [ ... ]

Summer Vacation Ideas in Massachusetts
Finance TravelingMomSummer Vacation Ideas in Massachusetts

Although summer vacation in Massachusetts will start later than usual due to many snow days, it's time to start planning those summer family vacations in Massachusetts! For a small state, Massachusetts boasts some fabulous summer vacation spots - here are a few of the best, along with some insider t [ ... ]

The Chevy Volt: A Dashboard View
History Buff TravelingMomThe Chevy Volt: A Dashboard View

The thought of driving an electric car always seemed a little intimidating to me. Is there a learning curve? What happens when you are in the middle of the highway and the battery runs out? When it comes to the technology of electric cars I am a bit of an auto-techno peasant but I recently had a cha [ ... ]

Blending the Nutcracker for New Memory Layers

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Nutcracker5I bought five tickets for a Nutcracker performance 50 miles away, confident I could swoop up blended family granddaughters three days later.

Why wouldn’t a Christmas ballet be on the top of their list, as it was on mine? Lost an eight-year-old to the downtown parade.  Gained a three-year-old who acted so excited one might think she knew what it meant.

Lost two grown-up granddaughters to the lovely Callaway Gardens, a Georgia paradise of gardens, greenhouses, woodsy paths and fine accommodations.

Gained a granddaughter-in-law, the mother of the three year old.

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Nutcracker ballerina charmed Blended Traveling Mom’s guests after the matinee.


Gained a first grader who barely knows me but dressed in holiday red with striped tights, and was sorely disappointed when her $1.00 raffle ticket did not win her a nutcracker.

Her grandmother Jerry is my friend of 30 years; she was my firstborn son’s kindergarten teacher. 

Isn’t it grand she and I shared next generations together for a ballet that’s 119 years old? We sat side by side, this valued friend and I.

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Blended Mom’s friend of 30+ years Jerry Walker with her granddaughter Claire, Jessica Tibbetts and her daughter Ella.


Wondered what other relationship treasures might have arisen had I bought ten tickets?  Good to believe when I gamble.

Nutcracker4I’ve been by the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, Russia, but not inside. That’s where Tchaikovsky’s composition for E.T.A. Hoffman’s tale was first heard.  

Two nights and days visiting this city from a Norwegian Cruise Line Baltic cruise was glorious, but not enough. Maybe I’ll return.

Four nutcrackers live at my house; husband G. W. and I, with two young sons, were lucky enough to explore Germany twice, visiting Army officer son John and his family. Never bought a cuckoo clock, but did select nutcrackers.

We’re blended, remember? Lots of ages interacting all the time.

Playing I Spy with a three-year-old after an afternoon at the ballet is good for energy levels, especially when all my clues had to do with those four nutcrackers.  Ella found each one.

Top Photo: G. W. Tibbetts with beekeeper and Santa nutcrackers at home with Blended Traveling Mom.

Last Photo: Nutcrackers have loads of personalities, including fishing.  
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Christine Tibbetts filters travel through her blended, multi-generational "his, hers, ours and theirs" family eye. Follow her also on www.TibbettsTravel.com.

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