Bake: Festive Sprinkle Cookies

December 20, 2019.Reading time 6 minutes.

We’re a foodie family – which means we love eating and creating (baking and cooking) delicious food together.  In fact, before I started this blog, I had a mainly food focused blog – Living Deliciously in SoCal. Although now our focus is more on adventures and family trips, we continue to enjoy our time together in […]

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Girls Trip: Weekend in Palm Springs

November 18, 2019.Reading time 8 minutes.

If you’ve been following this blog, then you’re aware of my love for adventuring with my family, and that I often plan multi-generational, multi-family, trips.  I also love trips with friends, but these tend to be far and few between since coordinating time off can be a challenge with friends who are working professionals or […]

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Family Travel: China – General Tips and Packing List

July 6, 2019.Reading time 28 minutes.

My family recently went on a two-week trip to China in order to celebrate my parents’ 70th birthdays. We had to postpone our trip for a year due to various circumstances, but finally made it happen this past June!   While we do try to take extended family/ multigenerational reunions and trips a few times […]

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Family travel: 50 hours in San Francisco

June 3, 2019.Reading time 15 minutes.

Growing up in New England, I visited my grandparents in the Bay area every summer, and dreamed about moving to California one day. Well, that dream has come true, and we love living in Southern California. But I will always have a fondness for Northern California where I spent so many childhood summers, and we […]

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Family Travel: Joshua Tree National Park

May 26, 2019.Reading time 15 minutes.

I remember the first time Jason and I visited Joshua Tree. It was in 2010, the year we moved to Southern California.  As we drove through the park full of Joshua trees and boulders, we marvelled at the unique and otherworldly landscape.  We looked at each other and both remarked how this was a place unlike […]

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SoCal Daytrip: Vasquez Rocks

May 5, 2019.Reading time 4 minutes.

“This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No […]

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