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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...

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...

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...

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...

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
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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 Paradise 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 [ ... ]

Exclusive Interview With Real Housewives of NY Alex McCord

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alexmccord-newshowI had the pleasure of interviewing the lovely Alex McCord of The Real Housewives of New York. She opened up about her new show ‘Coffee Shop Confessions’, her travel must haves and her current favorite reads.

What have you been up to lately?

Alex: We've been really busy post-housewives! Just this week we are shipping the first orders to hotels of our Egyptian cotton bedding and bath line — our company is called Aluxe Home — and we've just gone into production on the home line, which will be in retail mid-summer. Simon is doing lots of social media work, including spearheading a new smart phone app called Qwiqq, and this week I debuted a new show, called Coffee Shop Confessions!

Can you tell us about your new show?

Alex: Coffee Shop Confessions is part of Café Mom, a website founded by Andrew Shue from Melrose Place. The show features Andrew, myself and two other moms, Timberly Whitfield and Julia Knight. Each week we host a re-enactment of anonymous mom confessions, and discuss it. Some are hilarious, some are terrifying — a few I'm guilty of myself, too — you'll have to watch to guess which ones. It is a great group of people and was loads of fun to shoot.

You are the ultimate busy mom! What is one thing that helps you keep track of everything that is going on in your professional and personal life? (e.g. iphone, online schedule..?)

Alex: My phone is never far from my hand, or back pocket, and without Google Calendar I would never know where to be. It's a lifesaver.

Let's talk about travel! How much of the year are you away from home?

Alex: I try never to be gone more than once a month — less if possible, but when work beckons, you have to go. We actually talk about that in the first episode of CSC. When Simon or I are away, we talk or video chat with the family twice a day for 20 minutes, and take care of business the rest of the time. We do try to not stay on the phone with each other the whole time one of us is away — it's important to focus on one thing at a time and it makes coming home even sweeter!

What beauty products do you never travel without?

Alex: I have a full travel set of the Dermalogica products I swear by (Dermal Clay Cleanser and the Oil Control Lotion are great for stabilizing post flight skin.) Also I always try to wear my own foundation on shoots — my skin and I love Koh Gen Do Aqua Foundation.

Any advice for moms traveling with kids?

Alex: It's always better to laugh than lose it, so take a breath and make peace with the idea that something will go wrong at some point. Walk kids through the aiport security routine so they know what to expect. And even though we're all about minimizing screen time for kids, do let them use electronic devices for at least part of the time so that you can relax a little!

What book are you reading right now?

Alex: Just finished Kristen Johnston's "Guts," and before that was so obssessed with the new season of Downton Abbey that I re-read "Jane Eyre."

Check out Alex on Coffee Shop Confessions by clicking here.
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Vera Sweeney is a native New Yorker and mother of 2 children. She is the founder of I'm Not Obsessed Media, which includes LadyAndTheBlog.com, ImNotObsessed.com and BabyRazzi.com.

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