Family & Home

With Daylight Savings Time arriving this Sunday, we’ll set our clocks ahead, then the days are going to start feeling longer as the sun sets later. I can’t think of anyone who isn’t excited about seeing this time of year arrive. Some years winter lasts forever and more and more of us find our selves online looking at places to go on vacation. That’s how I came across these affordable rates on Myrtle Beach condo rentals that Condo-World has available.

Among their Myrtle Beach condo rentals are two featured properties that have huge spring and summer special deals going on.

Crescent Shores offers a Spring Special that will save you $75 off a 2 bedroom rental or $100 off a 3 bedroom rental when you stay 4+ nights now through May 17. Their Summer Special will give you $125 off a 2 bedroom rental or $175 off a 3 bedroom rental when you stay 7 nights between June 1 and August 17, 2013! Use promo code CS2013 when you make your reservations and you must book by March 15 to get this deal.

The Spring Special at Ocean Bay Club will save you $25 off a 1 bedroom rental, $50 off a 2 bedroom rental, $75 off a 3 bedroom rental or $100 off a 4 bedroom rental when you stay 4+ nights now through May 17. Their Summer Special provides you a savings of $75 off a 1 bedroom rental, $100 off a 2 bedroom rental, $125 off a 3 bedroom rental or $175 off a 4 bedroom rental when you stay 7 nights between June 1 and August 17, 2013! Use promo code OBC2013 when you make your reservations and book by March 15 to take advantage of these special rates.

Have fun saving all that cash! I’m sure you’ll think of something else to spend it on!

So picture your family on vacation at Holden Beach, North Carolina, and you and your wife think it would be so romantic to go out to dinner just one night without the kids along. But where, oh where, are you going to find childcare in a town where you don’t know anyone?

Here’s some good news for you. BrightStar Care offers Holden Beach NC childcare that you can rely on no matter what the reason or occasion. They offer flexible sick-day childcare and sitter services and pediatric home care, including a wide range of child home health care services for children with special needs. Their childcare services include caring, fully screened babysitter and nanny services, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

When you’re a parent the day eventually comes when someone you had lined up for childcare gets sick and opts out. It happened to some friends of mine recently that actually turned into a blessing. If their regular childcare provider hadn’t gotten sick they’d probably never have found the new Holden Beach NC childcare provider that they did. They’re pretty happy and gave their old childcare provider her pink slip.

If you’ve just had a baby or are about to, you’ll like knowing this company can provide you with a companion caregiver to be with you when you first come home from the hospital with your newborn. Their clinical caregivers are experts in well-baby and newborn care. This is especially helpful if for any reason you are unable to care for your baby yourself in the first few days or weeks. They are thoroughly trained and experienced in personalized pediatric nursing homecare for children and infants with a broad range of needs. Whatever your needs are, their highly skilled care professionals can help.

Nobody really wants to leave their best buddy home in a kennel or boarding facility while they go away on a family vacation. We think people should do everything they can to find pet-friendly vacation homes that will allow them to bring their four legged family members along on vacation with them.

The next time you’re headed off on a North Carolina vacation and you’re looking for Ocean Isle Beach pet friendly vacation homes be sure to get in touch with my friends at RH McClure Realty. Located in Ocean Isle Beach themselves, they know where all the best Ocean Isle Beach pet friendly vacation homes are and believe me, there are a sufficient number of them that you shouldn’t have any trouble finding accommodations for the time you want to go.

Maybe not so much cats but dogs love the ocean and the beachfront. If it’s your dogs first time at the beach bring plenty of fresh water for him and set it out. If you possibly can, try to keep him from drinking ocean water. If he does, and most he will try it at least once, you can expect he’ll be throwing up later that day.

Trust me when I say your buddy will recover from this unfortunate experience that every non-local dog goes through at least once on his/her first visit to the ocean. They bounce right back and while they might not try drinking any more ocean water they’ll still have a blast running up and down the beach.

It is funny to have the positive things life conflict with the negative. I think we can all understand that in our jobs or family life. That is why being able to cut free and be yourself is great. I have not seen that in a while but looking through many of your pictures brings me back to those times.

It is hard to see me party like that again. I am too old and only want to capture the fun you are having not actively be part of it. In short, there are times I wish I was in my 20's again cause you ladies look so good. I would give that up for that 7 year old I wake everyday though.

More power to you and have fun. Be safe and do not let something happen to you. I am the overprotective father now. What will I be when she is 20.