Seaside Crafts

June 13, 2009

This week, we're taking a look back at our favorite Being Savvy posts from last summer. Grab your sunscreen, pull up a beach chair, and enjoy! Left to their own devices at the beach, little children invariably turn into collectors. It it is almost impossible to leave a beach without a pocketful of shells, rocks, seaglass, sand dollars and

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Books That Take Us to Far Away Places

June 15, 2009

This week, we're taking a look back at our favorite Being Savvy posts from last summer. Grab your favorite sunglasses and a scoop of drippy ice cream and enjoy! Whether you are enjoying a "staycation" or embarking on a bona fide vacation this summer, nothing says escape like a good book. Browsing for a great beach or porch read is one of the

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Of Tents and Tree Houses: Why Kids Love a Second Home

June 16, 2009

This week, we're taking a look back at our favorite Being Savvy posts from last summer. Grab your favorite sunglasses and a scoop of drippy ice cream and enjoy! Does summertime make you dream of a second home? A getaway ever at the ready, a place for relaxing and dreaming, for hiding from the world, located in a beautiful spot and full of your

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An Escape on a Sugar Cone! Let's Have Some Ice Cream!

June 17, 2009

This week, we're taking a look at our favorite Being Savvy posts from last summer. Grab your favorite sunglasses and a scoop of drippy ice cream and enjoy! Nothing says summer like a drippy, delicious ice cream cone.  Except maybe a drippy, delicious ice cream clutched in the mitts of your flush-cheeked preschooler!  Consider it a newly

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But Realistically: How to Get Away Without Getting Away

June 18, 2009

This week, we're taking a look back at our favorite Being Savvy posts from last summer. Grab your favorite sunglasses and a scoop of drippy ice cream and enjoy! Reflecting as we have on the delights of vacation and the pleasures of home has made us think:  surely there are great ways to bring some of that escapist fun into our daily life,

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