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Mixing Business With Travel

One of the great things about having your own home – based business or businesses is that you get to decide how much vacation time you get, and when you can take it. While you may not be able to pay yourself for vacation days that you take, you may still be able to make money while you are on vacation by working a little bit during your trip. The bottom line is, how you approach balancing travel and work is completely up to you. In just a few days, I will be leaving with my family for a road … Continue reading →

How a Road Trip Can Save You Money… and Your Relationship

Newsflash: A road trip with your spouse can help you save money on couples’ counseling… and potentially an expensive divorce. Despite what you saw when Oprah and Gayle did it, a new study finds that extended periods of time in a car with a friend or significant other can be good for your relationship. YourTango and Ford Motor Company just released the results of a poll that queried more than 1,000 people who had driven long distances with a spouse or significant other. According to the poll, 84 percent said that the road trip experience strengthened their relationship. The bulk … Continue reading →

Road Trip Sanity Savers

Keeping the peace in a vehicle filled with cranky kids is no small task, and with the summer travel season kicking off this weekend, now is the time to arm yourself with weapons against the “Are we there yet?” blues. With advancements in technology, the family car often morphs into a mobile living room complete with DVD players, video games, and smartphones. These days, most parents don’t dare travel long distances without arming kids with portable digital devices, from iPads to portable PlayStations. These electronic entertainment systems are a far cry from playing 20 Questions in the back of a … Continue reading →

Traveling for the Holidays

Are you planning a road trip this Christmas? Visiting family is important during the holidays, but traveling can be a little intimidating if you are a single parent. Just loading the kids up to go to the grocery store can be a challenge. You may be feeling a little discouraged about the long drive, but here are some tips and tricks we’ve learned from our own road trips to make the journey just a little less stressful. Bring plenty of things to keep the kids entertained. Long car rides are boring, especially for children who seem to have the attention … Continue reading →

On The Road Again, By Herself

My daughter set out on her first road trip today. She is driving from Salt Lake to Boise with her cousin to pick up her other cousin. How did she get old enough to go on a road trip without me? But more importantly, why do I feel so vulnerable and helpless? We took her car and got the tires rotated, filled the tank with gas, stopped and got drinks and snacks for the ride. Once we were home we checked and filled all the fluids in her car and loaded it up. The last thing she put in was … Continue reading →

Single-Parent Vacation?

This summer Logan and I desperately needed a vacation. We were planning on going on a little camping trip for a few days, but I wasn’t sure how to pull that off with just the two of us. Would I be able to get the tent up with the not so helpful help of a three year old? What if I couldn’t get a fire started? Would Logan be bored out of his mind just camping with Mom? Needless to say the camping trip didn’t happen. So we decided that we wanted to make the 14 hour drive to Oregon … Continue reading →

Summer Vacation for a Business Owner?

Do you take a summer vacation? If so, how long do you step away from your business to take a vacation? Do you put someone else in charge or simply take down your “open” sign and replace with “Gone Fishing”? Small business owners know more than anyone that time is money. Whenever you are not working you are losing money. Whenever you are working you oddly only have the potential to make money. Nonetheless, time really is money and taking too much time off can harm a small business. Not only could you lose money you could use clients and … Continue reading →

Family Game Night: Road Trip

Games are a fantastic way to spend time together as a family. It is also a great way to reinforce lessons learned or even to learn new lessons. Sitting down at dining room table around a fun board game with family are memories your children and you will cherish. It gives you time to interact, laugh together, learn together and create memories together. I enjoy family game nights and so does the rest of my family. We are constantly looking for new games to interest us. Recently we became aware of Road Trip by Daddy-O. A great game if you … Continue reading →

Come On….Get Happy

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I was reading my Working Mother magazine and came across an article about secrets to being happy. I laughed to myself, thinking how simple it would be if there were actual “secrets’ to making life better. With some healthy skepticism I read the article, and was a bit surprised at how much was actually sound advice. The article was focused on being happy at your job, but a lot of what it covered impacts life overall. I am going to give a brief summary of the two things that stood out to me. The first thing that jumped out of … Continue reading →

Things To Remember on a Roadtrip

All this warm weather has me thinking about vacations. My last post was about camping and my suggestions. This post is about the joy of taking a road trip with your child. As a single parent of an only child I think my road trips are easier in some ways but harder in others. Easier because Hailey has no one to fight with, that also means she has no one to play with, sing with or just in general entertain each other. All those car games are much easier when there is more than one person actively looking for the … Continue reading →