Freaky Frugalite

I won’t be around here much for the next few days. I’m taking my daughters to New York City, to accompany me to The Home Depot Light Bulb Showcase 2012. Woohoo! Hey, light bulbs are exciting! Especially now that the federal government is outlawing our beloved incandescent bulbs and making us all switch over to [...]

This is a guest post that I thought was very well done, and is perfect for the start of summer! I hope you learn a few tips. ;) Keeping everyone in the family happy on a vacation is a daunting challenge. Family Vacations – Keep Everyone Happy In 3 Steps Holidays are meant to be [...]

Finally, after nearly 6 years of full-time blogging, I have a logo! Woohoo! Ladies and gents, this is my official brand for my travel blog, New York Traveler.net. My travel blog, in which I recorded the family day trips– replete with historical backgrounds and loads of photos– began in 2006. I started it as a [...]

Oh, Lord willing, the plans we have this summer. It’s been a CAH-RAZY couple of years! We’ve renovated the living room, kitchen, dining room, experienced a dozen destructive floods, have been working our tails off the pay the debts…. I have promised the kids that any renovation projects will be small this year and that [...]

Tourist season around here starts in another month. Woohoo! My kids have always loved dressing up in Children’s Costumes, even into their teenage years. We are really, really hoping to make it to the Renaissance Fair this summer. There’s a huge festival every year in Sterling, New York. I remember wanting to go, as a [...]

Remember that song from Mary Poppins? The penguins sang it: Ohhhh, it’s a jolly ‘oliday with Mary! Mary makes the sunshine bright! I sing it sometimes in a very hoary Cockney accent, to irk my kids. Not that I do it very often, mind you. Did you know that London is hosting the 2012 Olympics?? [...]

I’m back! I’m back from an overnight trip to the Finger Lakes. WOW it was fun, but by day 2, I was horribly homesick. I missed my kids and I missed my kitty. They told me Livvy was terribly lonely, meowing and whining and pining out the window waiting for me. She was pretty depressed [...]

Were you ever “into” westerns and cowboys and Indians as a kid? Boy, I was! I always wanted to play the Indian, because Indians wore VERY cool moccasins and sneaked around the brush, unnoticed. My brothers liked to be the cowboys, because they could ride bucking broncos and shoot the guns and run around like [...]

When I was traveling away from home recently, I’d tried out some remote access software. I loved it!! It was like having my little home away from home. I also didn’t have to worry about having all my personal information on my travel netbook, either– all I had to remember was my remote access username [...]

Oh please oh please, I hope this is not a *sign* of getting old. I am TOTALLY exhausted. :coffeestat: I am just SO tired after my trip to NYC. It’s unusual for me, who is usually brimming with energy. Maybe it’s because I got dehydrated on my trip. Here in Upstate, the weather has been [...]