Philippines

Our Favorite Kid-Friendly Travel Gear

Traveling with kids is an adventure and one my husband and I highly recommend doing. There’s no right age to travel with kids – we started when Lou Lou and Jaf were both babies, taking them along on work trips. It wasn’t until Lou Lou was 4 (and Jaf was 2) that we decided to …

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Why You Shouldn’t Order From a Kids Menu

At every single restaurant we dined at this year the “kids menu” we received while visiting countries in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Europe included the same items; Cheese Pizza Pepperoni Pizza Spaghetti Chicken Nuggets Hamburger Cheeseburger Macaroni and Cheese Hot Dog You would expect to find these popular, unhealthy foods from restaurants across …

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How to Turn Your Kids Into Foodies

Trying different cuisines is like picking different colors of clothes from your closet. It gives you a sense of novelty, adventure, and it opens your eyes to something new allowing you to be creative. Jaf and Lou Lou, if you haven’t guessed, are Multicultural. I, their Mom am Hawaiian and their father Lebanese, which automatically …

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Oahu Eats: A Taste of Manila

The kids and I decided to venture out to “Little Manila” to see what we could find to eat for dinner last night. The City of Waipahu on Oahu, is a former sugar plantation town. Back in the early 1900’s, Oahu Sugar Company imported laborers from many different countries, including Portugal, China, Japan, Norway and …

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