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  • It all started on Spring Break

    In 2008, I went on my first college spring break. MTV spring break in Panama City, Florida: A week spent mostly being sick off cheap drinks, overpaying to get into dodgy foam parties and avoiding men who were trying to get you on girls gone wild.

    6 girls drove 18 hours to Florida in a borrowed minivan, shared a tiny motel room and all got dodgy tattoos (which I think all got infected). Fast forward to the end of Spring Break. I returned to Kent State University and had the final breakup of many with my then boyfriend of 4 years.

    Knowing I did not want to go back to our hometown for the summer I desperately looked for a summer job that would provide housing and was far away. I took inspiration from the best movie; Dirty Dancing and was hired to work in the dining room at The Tyler Place Family resort in Highgate Springs, Vermont.

    A month later I loaded up my blue tired chevy corsica and drove 12 hours to embark on an epic adventure I am still living today.

    American “Mum” in the UK?

    Starting this blog has been harder than I thought simply because I want to tell you everything all at once and well it doesn’t work that way.

    So, we will start with the basics. I am in fact an American who now resides in the UK (via my Italian passport-long story TBC) with my husband and 5-year-old twin boys. The boys were born here and dual Bristish/American Citizens.

    My husband was born and breed in Northwest England and after we got married, we chose to build our life here (also in Australia and France for short periods of time but again another story for another post)

    As we don’t live in a big city, I really am that American mum with the twin boys. Having been overseas for so long there are things you adjust to, but I have found there are simply some things that will always just be weird/different for me and that’s ok. Our saying in our family is “it’s not wrong, it’s just different” these 6 small words help us to agree to disagree.

    I hope you will join me for my take on parenting in the Uk and more excitedly on our crazy day trips, adventures and holidays across the UK and beyond as we try to instill our love of wanderlust to the kids and build their appreciation for what this amazing world has to offer.

  • It all started on Spring Break

    In 2008, I went on my first college spring break. MTV spring break in Panama City, Florida: A week spent mostly being sick off cheap drinks, overpaying to get into dodgy foam parties and avoiding men who were trying to get you on girls gone wild.

    6 girls drove 18 hours to Florida in a borrowed minivan, shared a tiny motel room and all got dodgy tattoos (which I think all got infected). Fast forward to the end of Spring Break. I returned to Kent State University and had the final breakup of many with my then boyfriend of 4 years.

    Knowing I did not want to go back to our hometown for the summer I desperately looked for a summer job that would provide housing and was far away. I took inspiration from the best movie; Dirty Dancing and was hired to work in the dining room at The Tyler Place Family resort in Highgate Springs, Vermont.

    A month later I loaded up my blue tired chevy corsica and drove 12 hours to embark on an epic adventure I am still living today.

    American “Mum” in the UK?

    Starting this blog has been harder than I thought simply because I want to tell you everything all at once and well it doesn’t work that way.

    So, we will start with the basics. I am in fact an American who now resides in the UK (via my Italian passport-long story TBC) with my husband and 5-year-old twin boys. The boys were born here and dual Bristish/American Citizens.

    My husband was born and breed in Northwest England and after we got married, we chose to build our life here (also in Australia and France for short periods of time but again another story for another post)

    As we don’t live in a big city, I really am that American mum with the twin boys. Having been overseas for so long there are things you adjust to, but I have found there are simply some things that will always just be weird/different for me and that’s ok. Our saying in our family is “it’s not wrong, it’s just different” these 6 small words help us to agree to disagree.

    I hope you will join me for my take on parenting in the Uk and more excitedly on our crazy day trips, adventures and holidays across the UK and beyond as we try to instill our love of wanderlust to the kids and build their appreciation for what this amazing world has to offer.