Christmas with Kids » travel http://christmaswithkids.com naughty and nice Fri, 14 Oct 2011 20:05:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 100 Days Until Christmas! http://christmaswithkids.com/2011/100-days-until-christmas/ http://christmaswithkids.com/2011/100-days-until-christmas/#comments Fri, 16 Sep 2011 20:10:56 +0000 Mama Elf http://christmaswithkids.com/?p=807 It’s hard to believe, but it’s that time of year to start thinking about Christmas. Check back with us every day for useful information on planning, shopping, and celebrating the most wonderful time of the year!

Where will you be spending Christmas this year? Will you be at home? Traveling? With family, or friends? Now is the time to make your travel plans or send invitations if you’re planning to host the big event this year.

Please let us know where you’ll be this Christmas by participating our poll!

View This Poll ]]> http://christmaswithkids.com/2011/100-days-until-christmas/feed/ 0 47: Book Your Travel http://christmaswithkids.com/2008/47-book-your-travel/ http://christmaswithkids.com/2008/47-book-your-travel/#comments Fri, 07 Nov 2008 05:43:53 +0000 Papa Elf http://christmaswithkids.com/?p=656 If you haven’t already, now is a great time to book your travel. The airlines are cutting rates now instead of waiting for their traditional cuts later in November. Lifehacker is running a poll of the best airfare travel site and Kayak.com is the run-away winner so far.

]]> http://christmaswithkids.com/2008/47-book-your-travel/feed/ 0 98: Where will you spend Christmas this year? http://christmaswithkids.com/2008/98-where-will-you-spend-christmas-this-year/ http://christmaswithkids.com/2008/98-where-will-you-spend-christmas-this-year/#comments Wed, 17 Sep 2008 05:00:37 +0000 Mama Elf http://christmaswithkids.com/?p=77 We live very close to our entire family, so our biggest complication is determining how we are going to exchange gifts. When I was a kid, we often had grandparents travel to our house for Christmas. All of the grandparents had worked out a schedule with their kids that seemed to work out. Sometimes we traveled to the grandparents’ houses, but that can be very complicated with a car full of kids, I imagine.

While being involved in professional music ministry, traveling for Christmas has never really been an option. For the first time in about 20 years, I didn’t have a gig this past Christmas Eve, so, I felt like we could host our families for Christmas dinner. Since that day (that I will talk about tomorrow,) we have seriously contemplated traveling over Christmas. It would be a lot of fun with the kids and it would give us a break from some of the commercialism. How fun would a “Camping Christmas Trip” be? I’ve had other friends go on a Christmas Cruise and I heard nothing but good things about that.

I think that having Christmas at home or grandparents’ houses is almost a necessity with little children. When the kids become teenagers, a traveling Christmas might hold more appeal.

Another attractive travel holiday option might be to rent a mountain cabin in a (hopefully) snowy locale. If you don’t have plans for Christmas, yet, you need to get cracking on your holiday plans!

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