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save money on airfare

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7 Best Ways I Save my Family Money on Airfare

JanuaryMarchAdults Only Travel, Playing the Points Game, Traveling Tips, Traveling with Babies, Traveling with Toddlers Lauren

The cost of flights is one of the top reasons families don’t take vacations. I’m here to show you how flying doesn’t have to be expensive. If you follow Lazy…

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Hey Y'all! I'm Lauren! Vacation planning enthusiast, wife of an amazing husband who is willing to succumb to my every wanderlust need. And mom to the cutest little baby boy (3) and baby girl (2). We travel often using credit card points and miles. Follow along for tips on cutting travel costs with points and miles plus detailed destination guides and itineraries. I want to provide encouragement and inspiration for the parents out there that hesitate to travel with their young children! The lessons kids learn from traveling (adaptability, patience, & adventure, to name a few) are worth every effort to travel as a family. And the memories made by us parents, are invaluable. Thanks for following!

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If wanting to vacation alot means you’re lazy then call me LazyLauren. Traveling the 🌎using💳 points & miles with my loves: Will🧔🏻Jimmie👦🏼4 & Emily👧🏻2

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Well, 30 minutes of flurries just 👏🏼 isn’t Well, 30 minutes of flurries just 👏🏼 isn’t 👏🏼going 👏🏼to cut it.  So I’m taking matters into my own hands 🥰. In just a few weeks we’ll be headed to Winter Park Colorado...where I can guarantee these kiddos some snow ❄️ ❄️❄️. I was hoping this was going to be the year I took them skiing for the first time. But, because of covid, ski school is closed right now. 😫 I’m sure most ski towns are quite a bit different than usual due to covid numbers. Has anyone been to the mountains yet this winter season? How did covid affect your ski-trip?
Jimmie watching a hermit crab come out of his shel Jimmie watching a hermit crab come out of his shell 💙. It may sound corny, but with each of our trips, I witness Jimmie coming out of his own shell more and more. 

I don’t think I’ve mentioned this before, but for the past 6 weeks Jimmie has been receiving speech and occupational therapy through Pediatrics Plus. He’s gone through multiple evaluations and still has 3 more ahead of him. It’s been emotionally exhausting to say the least...I’m trying to suppress the worry, yet I still have sooo many questions with very few answers. 
It’s been a balancing act between patience and persistence:
Too much patience without enough persistence leads to a blind acceptance of what is.
Too much persistence without enough patience leads to frustration and anxiety. 🤷🏻‍♀️ 

Anyway, I’m hopeful that in the coming weeks we will get some more answers and at the very least, get him set up with all the right therapies he’ll need to thrive. 

Hope everyone is having a good year thus far. We’re a whole 6 days in! 
😉 #4yearsold #jimmiejames
A sloth. 🦥 That’s Will’s spirit animal. Las A sloth. 🦥 That’s Will’s spirit animal. Last week, he even wore an ugly sloth Christmas sweater 3 days in a row (swipe ➡️) 🤦🏻‍♀️. 
While his sloth apparel is hardly my jam, I have to admit, they always serve as a good reminder. To regularly unplug from social media. To focus on my “stop-doing” list rather than my to-do list. To slow down and just be present.  Who knew a t-shirt can have such power 🤷🏻‍♀️?
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“Slow Down. And everything you are chasing will come around and catch you.”
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Drop a 🦥💙 in the comments below if you often need that reminder too. 
#slothlove #lazylauren
I want to thank everyone for all the overwhelming I want to thank everyone for all the overwhelming love, comments, messages and well wishes over the last several days. I haven’t been able to respond to all of them, but please know they are very much appreciated. You all are so supportive and that’s what I love about this insta-travel community 💕. I’ve continued to have no symptoms and my second PCR test came back negative! 🙌🏼🎉 I’m excited to have made it to the home stretch of my 10-day quarantine, just in time to celebrate Christmas with these two babies 👦🏼👧🏻. 
I made the choice to share my story because of the many questions I’ve gotten about symptoms, testing, etc. If I can offer even the tiniest bit of information to someone sitting at home, anxious about what they are feeling, then sharing this was worth it. 

Keep safe and healthy, friends! Wash your hands, wear a mask, & practice social distancing...Not just for yourself, but for your loved ones 💕
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!! 🎄🥰❄️
#sharingcovidstories #covidpositive #knowledgeispower
Well, I’m Positive...and not the good kind of po Well, I’m Positive...and not the good kind of positive. 😫 The news came as a complete shock, as I’ve had no covid symptoms and, to my knowledge, haven’t had any direct exposures. I got tested earlier in the week in preparation for some family coming in town for Christmas. 
While it’s far from ideal, it could certainly be worse. Fortunately the kid’s pcr tests and Will’s rapid test all came back negative. We are still waiting on Will’s PCR lab test (which tend to be more accurate than rapid tests).
In the meantime, I’m isolating myself from them in our guest room. My quarantine will end on Christmas Eve. Will has been bringing me meals while also playing single parent to our 2 and 4 year old. He’s my rock ❤️. 
If there is one thing I’ve learned from this, it’s that testing is so important in stopping the spread and saving lives. Had I not gotten the test “just in case”, I would have unknowingly been spreading the virus to my loved ones. 

Stay safe and healthy, friends. 💙 and Check out my stories for more updates

P.S. this photo was from earlier this year on our trip to Sicily in February. We made it home just before the coronavirus began to gain a lot of attention in northern Italy. Before the word ‘pandemic,’ and masks and social distancing and quarantine, and testing. You know, the good ole days. ❤️ #covidpositive
“Christmas magic is silent. You don’t hear it “Christmas magic is silent. 
You don’t hear it-
You feel it.
You know it.
You believe it.”
🔔🎄❄️🎅🏼❤️
Each year, the holidays get more and more magical with these two around. Watching their excitement of stumbling upon Santa’s sleigh, or simply driving around looking at Christmas lights...it gives me so much Joy to watch them experience the magic❤️. The pandemic has certainly taken its toll on some of our holiday traditions, parties & gatherings😢. But I refuse to let it get me down. There’s just too much to be thankful for. We are now making new traditions and We even got snow last night y’all❄️🙌🏼!!
I Hope you are all having a wonderful holiday season thus far ...and keeping your spirits bright 😉🥰
3rd time’s the charm 🎅🏼😉Turns out we ju 3rd time’s the charm 🎅🏼😉Turns out we just needed to find the Covid-friendly Santa 🎅🏼 🤷🏻‍♀️❤️. 
Swipe 👉🏻 for the Santas of Christmas past 🥰
Who needs snowflakes ❄️ when you have seashell Who needs snowflakes ❄️ when you have seashells 🐚? .....more like, lake-clams 🤷🏻‍♀️😊. 
I admit I’m a bit jealous of the beautiful snowy pictures from all you Northerners right now. Unfortunately, we are never guaranteed snow here in Central Arkansas. The last time it snowed on Christmas Day was in 2012. We got 9 inches and it seriously was the best Christmas ever! 🎄 
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As for the seashells, we took the boat out over the weekend for the first time this winter season. Every year, Entergy drops the lake about 5 feet in the winter to help control the spread of certain underwater plants that interfere with recreation. As a result, there’s lots more shoreline and beaches to explore. Seashells and clams everywhere! 🙌🏼🥰🐚
“If it involves mountains, breakfast food, coffe “If it involves mountains, breakfast food, coffee, or campfires,
Count me in.” 🌎 🏔 
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Oh...and wine 🍷😉
Hope everyone is having a great weekend!
Check out our stories to see what surprise we have in store for the kids this weekend 💙🎄
“Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of no “Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere, and sometimes, in the middle of nowhere you find yourself.”
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This past Sunday we finally made time to explore the land that Will’s grandpa gifted us many years ago. Up in Northern Arkansas right next to the Buffalo National River lies a little plot of woods that his Grandpa used some 60 years ago as pasture land for his cattle. We had always hoped to explore the land with his Grandpa and of course regret not doing so before he passed away. But after about two hours of trekking through the woods with toddlers on our back, we were able to find it! 🙌🏼 You could almost feel his Grandpa’s presence there and it was such a wonderful feeling to imagine the vision his Grandpa had for the land all those years ago. Hopefully, one day, we will build a little cabin, there in the middle of nowhere and will finally have his vision come to fruition. 💙
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