All Posts: Packing
The day before we leave on a long trip, I always have a moment when I don’t think I’m actually going to get it all done. Today is no exception. I haven’t yet started packing (although frankly, I’ve packed us up so many times that I could do it with one hand tied behind my [...]
I’ve always been a list-maker, but having kids kicked that up to a whole new level, especially when we travel. From the very first trip we took with Tommy when he was six weeks old, I made very careful lists in of exactly what we needed to bring – bottles and blankets and binkies and [...]
I’m really not all that into travel gear. You might even call me somewhat antigear. After lots of traveling with infants, toddlers, and now school-age kids, I’ve come to realize that there really aren’t that many things you need to have a successful trip. Not that we travel in a way that I would call [...]
Today we embarked on an entirely different trip than our recent one to Paris: our annual 3-week sojourn in Vermont where my father and stepmother live. We have done this every summer since Tommy was born save the year he was two, when we had just returned from our 13 months on the road and [...]
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