After spending a week in a rental camper in August 2020, Clara exclaimed “You know what we should do next summer!? We should go CRAZY FOR CAMPING”! We looked at one another, and then we looked at the kids, and in typical Suter fashion we said “… huh… maybe we should…”. The next several months …
Author: allison
Trip, Interrupted
So, remember that time I dusted off the blog, wrote three posts, then … nothing else … for a year? Right, well, uh, hi ?, how are you? How’s 2020? Though I haven’t been writing lately, I did sit down and compile our videos. Here is my best attempt at squeezing 7 wonderful months into …
Rainy Season Costa Rican Roadtrip
Our kids were off school last week which gave us the opportunity to see a bit more of the country we’re calling home for 3.5 months. And, wow, what a beautiful country it is. We set off Monday morning with the intention of driving to our hotel atop the PoĂ s Volcano just 4 hours away. …
How are we doing?
Yesterday I was chatting with some friends who asked me how we were doing. My answer to them ended up being a perfect jumping off point for a blog post. On balance, we are great! This is certainly not to say that everything is perfect and we don’t have any problems—we do! It’s really, really …
Is a picture really worth 1,000 words?
Ed: published June 2021, but drafted September 2019 Last week Clara had her first day of Kindergarten Around The World. If a picture is really worth 1,000 words this image I shared on Facebook would say “look at how interesting and adventurous my family is, dot dot dot”. But let’s be real for a second …
The more things change
Tap tap tap… is this thing on? Oh, hey there, it’s been a minute! Or, more accurately, 5,401,440 minutes. And what a 5.4 million minutes they’ve been. In the last 10.5 years we: moved to and worked in Toronto, got married, (I) started a photography business and another blog, left our jobs in Toronto, spent …
Family Vacation 2018
In May 2018 we did our first “big” (trans-continental) trip to Asia with two kids (aged 1 and 4). And it was worth every minute. We didn’t write about this one, but we did produce a short video!
Suters in Asia
[I decided to add this video to the blog in 2022 (for posterity). I actually did create and publish this video in 2018!] When Will and Clara were 1 and 4 years old, we decided to take them on a three week trip to Shanghai, Thailand, and Hong Kong. Travelling with littles is never easy, …
We should have stayed in Sintra
When had pretty much arrived at the conclusion that Portugal just wasn’t for us. Then we got to Sintra. We’d heard some pretty positive things about Sintra, so had decided to make it an overnight adventure rather than just a day trip. But on the 40-minute train ride from Lisbon we were worried—we thought we …
Lis-bonne?
It’s taken me a long time to write about Lisbon. I’m actually very glad that I didn’t just jump the gun and try to write about it last week—I think my tone would have been very negative, as when we arrived, the weather was cold and rainy. Our apartment seemed dark and not very homey. …