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London Day 1: Buckingham Palace and Finding Gluten Free Pizza!

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London Day 1: From DC to Buckingham Palace with jetlag and gluten free pizza

London, baby! This year my husband, Alan, starts a fancy new job that we expect will keep him busier than he has been for the last couple of years. Therefore, we decided to give our family an all-out overseas vacation. This was the boys’ first time overseas, so we figured a United Kingdom trip would break them in the most gently to international travel. After all, everyone speaks English there. Ha. London day #1 Day one took us from the […]

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Touring Old Town Alexandria with a Ghost Tour

Alexandria, travel, Virginia, washington dc
Tour Old Town with a ghost tour

Summer is back! And we are headed out on a ghost tour in Old Town Alexandria! We have very exciting things planned for this summer. The boys got out Wednesday, and I took them to Sweet Frog. That is one of my favorite traditions with the boys. It’s one of the few things we can all agree to love. Living in the D.C. area, the day trip options are endless, and Old Town Alexandria is more than worthy of its […]

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Over 35 Years of Miramar Beach

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Miramar Beach

This year our family’s over thirty years of vacationing at the grandparents’ condo in Miramar Beach comes to an end. When I got engaged to my husband Alan in 2002, I took my very first trip to Miramar Beach. Alan’s mom, who we call Nonna now, took me to her parents’ condo. We walked on the beach, ate out, went shopping, and had a great time. Nonna’s dad was a contractor. He built these condos in the 1970s. How cool […]

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Last Chance to See the Cherry Blossoms in D.C. Before Major Tidal Basin Reconstruction

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DC cherry blossoms

Did you know 2024 year is an important year for the D.C. Cherry Blossom Festival? It is the last year before major sea wall renovations force the park service to take down over one hundred and fifty trees. Don’t worry. Trees will be re-planted. This legitimately needs to be done due to flooding on one side of the Tidal Basin. It isn’t the entire Tidal Basin that is flooding. It’s just the area on one side of the Thomas Jefferson […]

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Exploring Our Family History in Tannehill State Park: A Beautiful Place to Take Your Family

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Tannehill Ironworks Historical State park

Last year my cousin Amber sent me a VHS video clip of an interview she did with our Maw-Maw back in the 1990s. In this video, Maw-Maw told us there is a cabin in Tannehill State Park that once belonged to our great-great grandparents. Once I learned we have an ancestral home on display in Birmingham, Alabama, I knew we had to go check this out! My kids love it so much when I drag them out on these sorts […]

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Traveling by Train from Naples to Sigonella Navy Base (in Sicily)

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Traveling by train from Naples to Sigonella

On the last day before our flight out of Italy, Alan and I needed to get from halfway up the boot in Naples, down to the island boot tip of Sicily, to fly out of Naval Air Station Sigonella. Our whole vacation was built around our military space available flights. To learn more about flying to Italy using military space A, if you are active duty or retired, click here. All of the flights back to the U.S. were leaving […]

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Stories of Our Boys Top 10 Most Popular Posts of 2023

Archaeology, big family life

If you follow both of my websites, you know that I did a top ten list for Gettingmyacttogether.com last week. I would never just shun my original website by not giving it a “Top 10 Most Popular” post too. Over the past couple of years, I have tried to take storiesofourboys.com into a more focused direction. Y’all know I started out blogging about parenting four boys, and my oldest son was absolutely not having it. He was right. You can […]

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7 Beachside Vacations in the U.S. for the Budget-Conscious Traveler

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Today we are talking about my favorite place in the world: the beach! We have a guest travel writer here to tell us all about different beach recommendations in the U.S. If the COVID-19 pandemic proved anything, it was the adventurous traveling spirit of the average American. As soon as draconian stay-at-home measures were lifted, people packed their suitcases, bought plane tickets for the entire family, and traveled. We not only go to the many stunning oceanfront properties in the […]

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What You Need to Know Before Going to Pompeii

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If you are planning your trip to see the amazing city of Pompeii and the people frozen in time, I have a few helpful tips to share with you. Here is a city, buried by a volcano almost two thousand years ago. Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD. The entire city was covered in pumice and ash from the volcanic eruption, and it laid buried, largely undisturbed until the 17o0s. When people finally dug up the city, they found the […]

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A Must See in Rome: This Beautiful Church Designed by Michelangelo

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we happened upon this beautiful church, in the center of the city. When we discovered that it is older than dirt and designed by Michelangelo

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