Healthy No-Bake Desserts When You Need a Sweet with Less Fuss By Kristy Alpert These healthy no-bake desserts fit perfectly into your lifestyle without heating up your home. Needing just a little time on the stove top or in the fridge, these no-bake healthy dessert ideas—including frozen treats and layered…
Mason Jar Desserts That Leave Bowls Behind By Kristy Alpert Leave the bowls in your cupboard—these make-ahead desserts are best served in Mason jars. With trifles, pudding, and even pie, these picture-perfect Mason jar desserts make great gifts for friends and neighbors or sweet treats on the go. Check out…
15 Very Bizarre Things You Can Do at Hotels Around the World This Winter By Kristy Alpert Ski-in, ski-out resorts are an obvious choice for winter adventures, but these hotels offer something a bit more…or, at least, something more, memorable. COVID-19 Disclaimer: Make sure to check the status of the states,…
This Couple Built a House with Their Friends to Save Money. Here’s What They’ve Learned By Kristy Alpert For two couples living together under one roof in a suburb of Dallas, community living is one of the best decisions they’ve ever made. Chandler, 30, had known Jonah, 33, for years…
15 Ways Living on an Air Force Base Is Nothing Like Typical Suburbia by KRISTY ALPERT I swore I’d never marry a pilot—let alone a pilot in the military. My father’s own career as an airline pilot began 10 years after his graduation from the Air Force Academy. The stories of…
10 Mom-Approved Tips to Streamline the School Lunch Making Process And some will save you money too. BY KRISTY ALPERT Packing lunch for school—whether that’s an in-school school or an at-home school—doesn’t have to be stressful. For one northwest mom, packing bento-style lunchboxes for her 15 children has become a beloved ritual…
How & Why This Homeschool Mom Packs Lunchboxes Every Day And why you might want to do the same even during distance learning. BY KRISTY ALPERT Packing a school lunch makes sense even if your kids are currently still distance learning. Here’s why it helps, and how to pull it off. Sherry…
How to Sanitize Your Space and Avoid Germs While Flying By Kristy Alpert Here’s how to stay safe and clean while traveling. Even when there’s not a Coronavirus lurking around, airplanes and airports can be like Petri dishes with some gnarly germs and grime. Only traveling while you’re healthy is the best…
By Land and Sea By Kristy Alpert CRUISING HAS CHANGED DRAMATICALLY over the past century, first providing travelers with a means of transportation and then ushering in a new era that attracted leisure travelers looking for variety in the midnight buffets and activity on the shuffleboard courts. The new generation of…
Raising Little Travelers: How to Get a Passport for Your Baby Kristy Alpert Let’s make a traveler out of your baby, shall we? Traveling with your newborn for the first time is all about patience, but traveling internationally with your baby for the first time is all about the process. Every passenger…
