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How To Survive Holiday Travel With Children

December 5, 2019

How to make the holidays more stressful? Just add long car rides, cross-country flights, and a few underslept kids! Our sleep expert Mahaley tells us how to navigate the mess with your sanity (relatively) intact.

By the time my daughter was two, we had taken 21 flights with her. (Yes, you read that right.) With the holidays in full swing, I get asked how to survive all the travel and festivities with a young child - so here are my best tips and strategies:

1. When possible, give your child their own sleeping space. My husband and I will often opt for a more affordable hotel or an Airbnb so that we can get a suite or a two-bedroom apartment when we travel. Many kids do better with a little privacy (and quiet).

2. Make the sleep environment as familiar as possible. Whatever your child typically sleeps with, bring it. Make the room as dark and quiet as possible, and pack your white noise machine. Having a solid bedtime routine also simplifies traveling, because you'll be able to use established cues to signal to your child that it’s time to sleep even though they're not in their typical environment.

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Holiday Travel Beauty Essentials

November 24, 2014

My skin is always a little trickier in the wintertime – on a 1 to 10 scale of dryness, I’m a six thousand – and when you add in travel on top of it, there’s some serious potential for disaster. You know when you get breakouts and dryness at the same time, and don’t really know how to handle either situation because the remedy for one issue only seems to make the other worse?

That.

But! It is totally handle-able, and the way to deal is to go for the gentlest possible skincare routine, one that lets your skin chill out and breathe and find its way back to normal. In the past, I’ve been an oh-I’ll-just-use-whatever-soap-is-in-the-hotel-room person, but no mas, because really: it’s just as easy to throw a few travel-friendly products in my bag so I can take my regular routine with me wherever I go.

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Family Road Tripping

July 22, 2013

We haven't done a road trip video in over a year now (the last one was shot on our drive to Ohio in November 2011)...so we thought it was time for a revisit.

Road Trip to Ohio (Thanksgiving 2011)

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Ogunquit, Maine Must-Dos

July 22, 2013

For those of you still planning your summer vacation, I very enthusiastically recommend that you give Ogunquit a shot - I honestly think it's just the most perfect summer town ever, and has something for everyone (carnivals, antiquing, gorgeous beaches, great food, fishing, et cetera). It's pretty busy on summer weekends, but if you can steal away during the week you'll find better prices on hotel rooms and shorter lines at restaurants.

A few of my favorite area must-dos:

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For All The Evenings

April 29, 2013

You know how some people have a shoe thing? I don't really. I mean, I'd hardly kick a pair of silver Jimmy Choos out of bed, but honestly: fancy footwear stresses me out because you have to...you know...walk in it. On the ground.

Purses? Now that's my thing. I adore them, I collect them, it's rare that I leave a flea market or vintage store without some new find or another.

So it's sort of weird that the one purse I've never owned is a black evening purse. For years now, whenever I'm headed out to someplace fancy I've ended up defaulting either to a daytime bag (because whatever), or this crazy over the top bedazzled gold thing that a friend gave me years ago when I lived in LA and that is extremely wild and fun, but not exactly sophisticated.

I had an elegant black purse for a minute, but it was beaded and from approximately 1827, and when I took it out with me it ended up disintegrating almost immediately. I've kept an eye out for the right evening bag for awhile now, but haven't found anything perfect - I wanted smallish (but big enough for my phone), black leather, classic shape, interesting details, slim gold chain strap, and not-two-thousand-dollars.

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More Shots From The Travels

April 25, 2013

Remember how I said this resort was an excellent, excellent choice for a vacation (especially with a toddler)? A few more examples, just because:

Hello, cutie pie. And sunburn. (DIY sunburn relief remedies here.)

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Daily InstaGlam

April 24, 2013

Happy mama, slightly nervous baby (still working on figuring out this whole "swimming" thing).

The filter on this photo only partially disguises the fact that the shade I'm rocking at the moment is a lovely half-oyster/half-lobster combo. Have moved on to SPF One Million.

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The D.R., So Far…

April 23, 2013

This week has been pretty stellar.

We're at a Club Med in the Dominican Republic, and yes: as advertised, Club Med (and this one in particular) is an excellent, excellent choice for a vacation with a toddler. The only con, to me, is the food: it's all sorta buffet-style, and totally fine, but not great. If, however, you're a family with kids that wants to have tons of options, have them available all the time, and be able to get in and get immediately back out to the Object Of Obsession (the pool the pool the pool), it's fantastic...and we're firmly in that category, so this place is perfect for us.

This Club Med is also very specifically set up for families: pretty much everyone is here with kids, and it's more or less a child paradise. There's even a "Baby Club" where you can drop off your child in the playground to end all playgrounds (it's enormous, with on-land structures and water-type structures, and incredibly nice staffers, and an indoor, air-conditioned area for naps) while you do adult stuff (I have a trapeze session scheduled for later on today).

Let's back it up to Saturday.

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