Yet again this year, we are sending out a blank Mad Lib for the fun-loving word nerds among you to create your very own version of a Boyd holiday letter. But if you’re curious about the “official” version, read on.
The 2023 Boyd Holiday Mad Lib
The 2022 Boyd Holiday Mad Lib
Yet again this year, we are sending out a blank Mad Lib for the fun-loving word nerds among you to create your very own version of a Boyd holiday letter. But if you’re curious about the “official” version, read on.
The 2018 Boyd Mad Lib
Yet again this year, we are sending out a blank Mad Lib for the fun-loving among you to create your very own version of a Boyd holiday letter. But if you’re curious about the official version, read on.
Our 2017 Mad Lib
Yet again this year, we are sending out a blank Mad Lib for the fun-loving among you to create your very own version of a Boyd holiday letter. But if you’re curious about the official version, read on.
Heads up! It’s the 2016 Boyd Family Mad Lib!
Yet again this year, we are sending out a blank Mad Lib for the fun-loving among you to create your very own version of a Boyd holiday letter. But if you’re curious about the official version, read on.
Continue reading “Heads up! It’s the 2016 Boyd Family Mad Lib!”How to Talk English: Learning to embrace Britishisms
This post is the seventh in our “England 2015”:/news/category/travel/england-2015/ series.
As soon as we had secured our plane tickets, our first task was to contact our dear friend and host Teresa, a spunky, energetic 86-year-old Englishwoman. She and the Boyd family have been friends for decades, and she has been urging us to bring our family to visit for years. Continue reading “How to Talk English: Learning to embrace Britishisms”
Homesick for Cats: Missing Franny and Pepper all over England
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The hardest thing about traveling for our seven-year-old daughter Rosie wasn’t the unfamiliar food or the jet lag or the miles of walking we did every day. It was missing our cats. Continue reading “Homesick for Cats: Missing Franny and Pepper all over England”
Perfecting Fun in Quiet Desperation: A lesson from the London Eye
This post is the fifth in our “England 2015”:/news/category/travel/england-2015/ series.
On our second day in London, we decided to take a trip on the “London Eye”:https://www.londoneye.com. This giant ferris wheel opened in 2000 and consists of 32 large glass-enclosed capsules that hold up to 25 people each. The view is incredible, and the girls had been drawing pictures of it practically since the moment we announced our plans for the trip. Continue reading “Perfecting Fun in Quiet Desperation: A lesson from the London Eye”
The Champion: Our favorite burger for the travel-weary
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Our arrival day was exhilarating, but exhausting. After sleeping minimally on the plane, we landed at 8:30 am England-time with the intent that we would power through until bedtime in order to beat jet lag. Continue reading “The Champion: Our favorite burger for the travel-weary”
Departure: The journey from crazy to calm
This post is the third in our “England 2015”:/news/category/travel/england-2015/ series.
The week of departure was chaos. Pack the bags. Shop for airplane snacks. Clean the house. Finish up work projects. Pack up the cats and bring them to our friends’ house. Back up the computers. As I tied up loose ends at work and at home, staying up into the wee hours of the night, Jon voiced his concern that my stressful aura would spill over into our precious trip. Continue reading “Departure: The journey from crazy to calm”