Healthy Weight Loss While Traveling in 2011

Lucky Little Travelers, www.luckylittletravelers.com, is a new website dedicated to family travel.  Please see our website for travel tips, packing, and family friendly destinations.  We are accessible by your Android phone or iPhone.

These are Our Rules for Weight Loss While Traveling:
1. Order grilled, not fried.
2. Hold the mayo, take the mustard.
3. Say no to the cheese.
4. Ask for the dressing on the side.
5. Pass on the fries, or order them unsalted.
6. Drink plenty of water.
7.  Enjoy the fresh fruits and vegetables from farmers markets that you can easily find in most cities.

We hope we have helped in some way.  Happy Healthy New Year!

Memories of Elizabeth Edwards

How will Elizabeth Edwards be remembered?  She seemed like a real lady.  She was well educated and very composed under the worst conditions.  Obviously, she loved her children.  The question of how she will be remembered should be asked by all of us about ourselves.  As we think about her and family, we pray for her children to find comfort in memories of their mother.  Memories are where we discover the true depth of love.  We hope that the children of Elizabeth Edwards have warm memories to sustain them through their difficult times.  May Elizabeth Edwards rest in peace, and may her children remember every detail of the wonderful woman that she was.  She will truly be missed.
 Of course, each of our children will have different and unique memories of us.  Each child in the family will remember the family dynamics differently.  But, what will our children really remember of us?  Will it be the simple things we did for them, like brushing their hair before school every morning?  Or will their memories be filled with giggles and wonder during their family vacations.  Did we as their parents enrich their lives through travel? The closeness of a family experiencing the same wondrous journey, with new cultures, and new cuisine, and the excitement of family travel is one of the best memories a child can have.  It really does help them to think more globally as they get older.
Our philosophy at Lucky Little Travelers ( http://www.luckylittletravelers.com/ ) is that family memories are important.  That is why we try to guide you in child friendly destinations.  We take family vacations to create memories for our children.  Often, family vacations are pointed to highly popular places that children cannot relate to.  We think that you can incorporate the popular places with child friendly places and create a lasting memory for your children of family fun.  We are a new website that is growing and we are just starting to build.  If you do not find the information that you are looking for, please come back and visit us again.
Happy Safe Travels!

How to Find the Best Money Saving Family Vacation Deals and The Best Days to Find Them in December 2010

1.      The Best Time of the year to purchase vacation packages are from Thanksgiving to mid December.
2.      The best deals that you can find are vacation packages that come bundled with hotels and flights.
3.      The Best deals can be found on Tuesdays.
4.      The best days to fly are Wednesdays, because they are the least expensive days to fly.
5.      Some of the best and least expensive flight prices can be found through using alternate airports.
Please check our new website:  http://www.luckylittletravelers.com/   We are a website dedicated to family vacations with children.  After searching the internet for packing list for children, I developed my own through the experience of family travel.  We have childrens' vacation packing list for both warm weather and cold weather vacations.  We have packing list for children's carry-on luggage and checked luggage.  We give packing tips.  We also have kid's inflight entertainment travel packing ideas.  Our website tells of fun things to do with children, in family friendly places.  We are new and currently still building our website, so if you don't find what you are looking for please check back soon.

Mom's Holiday Cookie Recipe and Children Traveling For the Holiday

As we prepare to travel away from our house this holiday season, I remember how much fun it was to bake with my mom as a child, and how much I enjoyed eating the results of our “hard” work.  It is a little more difficult to create those special memories on Christmas for our children because we are away from home.  I have for the past several years, brought a container full of Christmas holiday cookies with us (in my checked luggage).   I think my children will tie the holidays to our family by helping to bake in our kitchen before we leave. 

Here is one of my children’s favorite cookie recipes:

Oat meal Lace Cookies

2 ¼ Cups quick cooking rolled oats

2 ¼ Cups packed light brown sugar

3 Tablespoons flour

1 teaspoon salt

1 Cup butter (melted)

1 egg (slightly beaten)

1 teaspoon vanilla or almond extract

½ to ¾ Cup chopped nuts

Mix all ingredients, drop by level measuring teaspoon full onto well buttered cookie sheet (spray oils are acceptable).  Bake at 350 degrees for 5 minutes.  Let cookies cool before removing them from the baking sheet.  The cookies will be large and flat like lace.

Safety for Children on Vacation

As you prepare for your family’s holiday vacation in the merry madness of it all, don’t forget to take a few extra steps to insure your children’s safety.  Lucky Little Travelers (http://www.luckylittletraveles.com/ ), a new website dedicated to family travels, recommends a few pre-cautionary safety measures:

1. Teach your children their full name and phone number (including area code), you would be surprised how many 4 year olds don’t know their last name.  All children need written identification on them, meaning write on their hand or use a sticker for little ones.  For older children, give them a copy of the vacation itinerary.
2. Teach your children your full name and their father’s full name. (Grandparents full names, whoever you are visiting, and city name where they are going.  They may not remember, but at least you will know you tried.)
3. Use stickers- preprinted with name, parent’s names, cell phone number (including area code) and address.  Place identification stickers on clothing or use in shoes.  Make sure that your child knows their name and address is in their shoe. (You can buy name tags to run through your printer, or the simple introductory stickers.)  Include if you can, cell phone numbers (including area code), home phone numbers (including area codes),  home address, and your child’s pediatrician’s phone number (including area code), and an emergency contact number.
4. Take a photo, with your camera phone or camera, of each child on vacation, at the beginning of each day.  It will I.D. them in the outfit that they are wearing that day, and vacation photos are wonderful memories so it is a two for one.  Also, all adults on vacation should carry current photos of your children.
5. If you should decide to purchase a more costly I.D.  bracelets or dog tag, you should include:  cell phone numbers (including area code), home phone numbers (including area codes),  home address, and your child’s pediatrician’s phone number (including area code), and an emergency contact number.
6. For older children:  Be sure they are told hotel names and number, and give them a copy of your itinerary to carry with them in their backpack.

How to Find The Top 5 Best Vacation Tips to get Great Deals for Lucky Little Travelers

1. The Best time of the year to purchase vacation packages are from Thanksgiving to mid December.
2. The best deals that you can find are vacation packages that come bundled with hotels and flights.
3. The best deals can be found on Tuesdays
4. The best day to fly are Wednesdays, because they are the least expensive day to fly.
5. Some of the best and least expensive flight prices can be found through using alternate airports.

Please check our new website:  http://www.luckylittletravelers.com/  Lucky Little Travelers is a website dedicated to family vacations with children.  After searching the internet for childrens' vacation packing list for both warm weather and cold weather vacations, I developed my own. We also have packing list for carry-on bags and checked luggage.  Entertaining children on a long flight or car ride can be difficult, we put some ideas together and created a packing list for in-flight entertainment for children.  We hope that our ideas of places to go to entertain kids, and our packing list will alleviate some of your stress.  Holiday vacations should be fun, packing can be a nightmare.  We hope that we have helped you.