Disclosure: I’m a Blogger Ambassador for Hilton Hotels® and I received a complimentary 2-night hotel stay at Homewood Suites Hotels. As always, all opinions are my own. I just came back from a great family vacation with the kids. Unfortunately, my husband was not able to attend because he was holding it down in the office while I held it down with the kids … [Read more...]
The 3 P’s to Planning the Perfect Family Reunion
Disclosure: I’m a Blogger Ambassador for Hilton Hotels® and I received a complimentary 2-night hotel stay at Homewood Suites Hotels. As always, all opinions are my own. There is no debating that family reunions are very important to African Americans. Now that our families are spread out all over the United States, we use family reunions as a way to stay connected and to … [Read more...]
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly about African American Family Reunions
Some of my fondest childhood memories involve family reunions. For our family, the reunions usually happened during the summer months. And it normally involved some sort of cookout in the yard (usually one of relatives had a big plot of land that we would use.) In later years, we started reserving picnic shelters at local parks and having the family reunions there. And on my … [Read more...]
Travel Tuesday: Floating Family Reunions!
With the holidays and the end of the year fastly approaching a lot of people are also starting to plan next year's family reunion. A new trend in family reunions has become extremely popular: cruise ship family reunions or (jokingly called) floating reunions. That's right"...cruise ships have become one of the more popular options for family reunions. They are a … [Read more...]