Tag: family
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Oakland Solo Week 2
It’s Mother’s Day which means that my trip to Oakland was three months ago!? Where does the time go?! Well, it never gets old looking back on the full-o-fun memories that we made. If you finished reading the previous post, then you know that Miya’s crew arrived on a Sunday. The cousins crew didn’t skip…
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Oakland Solo
My girls exceeded my expectations on this solo trip from London to Oakland. There is no way to sugar coat it: eleven hours is a loooong flight. We had our busy bags, snacks, an ipad with a headphones splitter but by the last four hours, I wasn’t sure what we were going to do. But…
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Reunion at Samuel P Taylor

We went camping at Samuel P Taylor this summer. It’s the place I grew up camping, and it was a joy to take my girls for their first camping trip. The smallest detail like feeling the car dip down in the road towards the campsite kiosk felt nostalgic. The redwood trees felt like home. The…
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Reunion in Kailua-Kona

All of Miya’s planning and logistics all came to fruition as we checked into the Kona Coast resort just an hour apart from each other. I couldn’t believe we were finally in Hawaii! I remember feeling anxious because I wanted to do everything at once, and didn’t know where to start! I wanted to be…
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Hola, Tenerife!

After Saya testing negative the day before a 7am departure, we hurriedly packed our bags for Tenerife. Tenerife is the largest of the Canary Islands, and hosts tourists year around on the southern tip of the island. While the kids draped themselves across me for the flight, I meditated on the fact that an all-inclusive…