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  • GET RID OF THAT OLD CRIB–NOW!
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    GET RID OF THAT OLD CRIB–NOW!

    ByEileen Ogintz November 24, 2009June 28, 2023

    I know when the new baby comes to visit it’s tempting to put your grandchild in the same crib you used as a new parent. DON’T!

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  • PIGEON FORGE, Tennessee – Day one
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    PIGEON FORGE, Tennessee – Day one

    ByEileen Ogintz November 23, 2009July 9, 2021

    The Living room is beautifully decked out for the holidays with greenery, wreaths and a tree in all its glory. On the mantel in my bedroom, Santa shares space with golden elk and garland festooned with bright red holiday balls and ribbon. Even the lamp is tied with a big red and gold holiday bow and there’s a poinsettia (albeit a silk one) in the bathroom.

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    DIFFERENT STROKES FOR DIFFERENT FOLKS

    ByEileen Ogintz November 23, 2009June 28, 2023

    I just got back from two entirely different kinds of destinations that are winners for entirely different kinds of families.

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  • When Life Interferes With a Planned Celebration
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    When Life Interferes With a Planned Celebration

    ByEileen Ogintz November 15, 2009June 28, 2023

    Life has a way of changing planned celebrations. Jean Anne McKiernan and Richard Sandano were planning a big Brooklyn, N.Y., wedding when they discovered—very happily—they were going to have a baby.

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    It pays to ask

    ByEileen Ogintz November 14, 2009June 28, 2023

    I’ve been saying for months that in this economy, we should ask for what else the hotel/resort/ cruiseline can do for us–a better room, resort credits, free food. But until last week, I hadn’t thought about that in the context of a family emergency. I found myself handling flights and hotels for family converging in Illinois after my 90-year-old mother-in-law was rushed to the hospital and then died.

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  • Sailing Home from Bermuda
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    Sailing Home from Bermuda

    ByEileen Ogintz November 10, 2009July 7, 2021

    Life is too short to waste a minute, I think. We say goodbye to Bermuda and Hamilton’s Town Hall (click image to enlarge) DAY 5—I wake up on board Royal Caribbean’s Explorer of the Seas

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  • High Tea at the Hamilton Fairmont Hotel
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    High Tea at the Hamilton Fairmont Hotel

    ByEileen Ogintz November 9, 2009July 16, 2021

    We learn it is the only place—and the place—for a traditional English Tea. In the 1840s, Anna, the 7th Duchess of Bedford, wanted a snack for tea and thinly sliced bread and butter.

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  • To San Francisco’s California Academy of Sciences, the Greenest Museum in the Country
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    To San Francisco’s California Academy of Sciences, the Greenest Museum in the Country

    ByEileen Ogintz November 8, 2009June 28, 2023

    In the year since it has re opened, the Cal Academy has emerged as the city’s top cultural tourist attraction, drawing more visitors than Alcatraz Kids get up close and personal with specimens at the Academy of Sciences

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  • The rain stops in Bermuda
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    The rain stops in Bermuda

    ByEileen Ogintz November 8, 2009July 16, 2021

    Not sunny, but not raining. Just 66,000 people live on this pristine island—actually a series of about 360 small coral island, which is part of the British Commonwealth. Yes, we see businessmen wearing Bermuda shorts, knee-high socks, and shirts and ties to work. Hedges are manicured and lawns mowed. Houses are painted a rainbow of colors—bright orange, green and blue, pastel pinks and yellows.

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  • Cruising when the sun doesn’t shine
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    Cruising when the sun doesn’t shine

    ByEileen Ogintz November 7, 2009July 7, 2021

    It’s not the weather we imagined on our trip to Bermuda. The seas are rocking. It’s pouring and the waves are high. We get sprayed standing on our little balcony.

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