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A hammock, my laptop, sunshine and a destination to explore? Colour me "happy."
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Work Life Balance

By Heather on October 28, 2012

Ask me to list my work skills and among others you’ll get these: writing, editing, travel
Ask for my hobbies and the list is identical

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Posted in General, Life Lessons | Tagged life lessons | 7 Responses

Top 10 Cameron Moments
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Top 10 Cameron Moments

By Heather on October 4, 2012

Ten of my favourite things about my favourite (new) 8-year old.

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Posted in General, Life Lessons, Parenting | Tagged Birthday, Cameron, life lessons, List, parenting | 1 Response

Trying new things in China
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Five Things: Don’t travel the world without them

By Heather on September 29, 2012

If we’d brought nothing but these five things we’d still have had an amazing trip.

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Posted in Family Travel, Great Stuff, Life Lessons, The World Trip | Tagged family travel, life lessons, long term family travel, RTW with kids, what to pack | 5 Responses

Danger lurking around every corner? I didn't find it.
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5 habits we left behind to travel the world (and never need to pick up again)

By Heather on September 1, 2012

Our committment to having one suitcase each meant that we had to make serious decisions about what could come along for the trip. It was an exercise I’d reccomend anyone take – traveling or not.

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Posted in Family Travel, Life Lessons, The World Trip | Tagged family travel, globetrotting mama, life lessons, long term travel, RTW with kids, travel, travel habits | 38 Responses

Completely acclimatized
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Travel Flashback: Colombia

By Heather on August 26, 2012

We stripped down and climbed the rickety steps in nothing but our swimsuits, handed our cameras to the young men working there and climbed inside.

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Posted in Adventure, Family Travel, The World Trip | Tagged Cartagena, Cartagena Colombia, Colombia, fears, life lessons, South America, travel | 8 Responses

The infinite patience of an artisan sharing his story with Cameron in Egypt.
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Why the Evil Still Matters

By Heather on August 19, 2012

I was sipping and browsing the web and reading blogs and conference sites and that’s when it happened: Karen Green made me cry.

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We couldn't take them with us....or could we?
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Finding our way (at) home

By Heather on July 9, 2012

We’re home and trying to come to grips with a new reality. One that looks like something we used to know and yet feels very, very different.

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Posted in Adventure, Family Travel, The World Trip | Tagged around the world trip, family, home, life lessons | 18 Responses

Guess who's not driving us through the Maritimes?
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10 Days

By Heather on June 18, 2012

That’s all that’s left in this trip that was a year long but really supposed to last forever…10 days.

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Posted in Adventure, Family Travel, The World Trip | Tagged canada, home, life lessons | 6 Responses

Self-entertaining in our "4-star"
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How to tell if your “Four Star Hotel” is lying to you

By Heather on June 11, 2012

Just because there are 4 gold stars on the front of a building does not mean there’s a four star hotel on the other side.

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Posted in Adventure, Family Travel, General, Life Lessons, The World Trip | Tagged 4-star, family travel, hotel, life lessons | 4 Responses

Walmart, Mothers and a place for girls in India
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Walmart, Mothers and a place for girls in India

By Heather on May 23, 2012

Imagine what is involved in taking in and raising 72 children? Imagine how much good your money could do.

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Posted in Adventure, General, Great Stuff, Life Lessons, The World Trip | Tagged family, India, kids, life lessons, MOTY, Walmart | 11 Responses

Paris, France - Election Night
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Mother’s Day

By Heather on May 12, 2012

A mother’s love is everything. Here’s hoping we always remember how good it is to give and receive it.

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Posted in Family Travel, Life Lessons, Parenting, The World Trip | Tagged life lessons, Mom, Mother's Day, motherhood, parenting | 1 Response

Awake in Seville
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Awake in Seville

By Heather on April 22, 2012

Our love affair with Portugal continues ….a little too long.

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Posted in Adventure, Family Travel, Life Lessons, The World Trip | Tagged algarve, life lessons, seville | 13 Responses

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Where are they now?

May: First up is a visit to The Mom 2.0. summit in California, then a journey to explore the cultural side of Hong Kong and finally getting to know the gourgeous city of Glasgow, Scotland. It's going to be a great travel month! Click here to see articles from The Greenwood Davis Family's travels around the globe.

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