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Baby Travel

The #1 Overlooked Item on Your Packing List

by Lisa March 12, 2020

Family vacations have a uniquely wonderful way of putting parents on edge.

There’s the pressure we put on ourselves to make them magical and memorable. Then, there’s the hard job of getting your responsibilities covered at work, doing all the laundry, getting the kids packed, remembering to buy motion sickness bands…

Then, by the time your plane is in the air you realize you forgot Kevin. (Kevin!!!!) 😱

If I can urge parents to do 2 things, it’s these:

Please, don’t forget Kevin.
Don’t forget the #1 overlooked item on your packing list… a level head! Take a few minutes to slow down and have what I call a Pre-Trip Huddle with your partner to ready your minds. It’ll make all the difference in helping you actually enjoy your trip!

March 12, 2020 0 comment

Travel Gear

6 Baby Travel Essentials That Will Save Your Sanity

by Lisa September 26, 2019

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Sometimes as parents of babies we think that being over-prepared will keep us sane. (Confession time: Dustin and I bought a wipe warmer before we had our son. A wipe warmer?!? 😂)

When it comes to travel, I’ve found that packing as simply as possible and ruthlessly weighing my “nice-to-haves” and “might-needs” against my “essentials for sanity” makes for a much smoother travel experience.

The same rule applied when creating this list. While I was originally going to share 10 essentials, I thought to myself, “Beyoncé, you gotta simplify.” So I broke it down to just my on-the-go essentials that address these 3 things: my baby’s safety, sleeping, and eating. Because when one of those 3 are off, we’re all off! 🙂

So these are my 6 “essentials for sanity,” aka, the things that I would turn the car around for.

What are yours??

September 26, 2019 0 comment

10 Things Why Travel?

10 Reasons to Travel with Your Kids

by Lisa September 17, 2019

Kids scream on airplanes. Kids ask, “are we there yet?”
Little ones won’t remember trips anyway, so it’s not worth all the money & effort.
Think of all the luggage, Lisa. The luggage!!!

The reasons not to travel with kids are plentiful. I mean, if you were given the choice between taking a cross-country flight with a toddler or not… the answer kinda seems obvious, right?

Family travel has a unique set of challenges that cause a lot of us to either put it off altogether until kids are older or decide on taking me-time vacations while the kids stay with relatives.

As with anything of great value, of course there’s a commitment and a good bit of energy required to making it happen (the purpose of this blog being to make that part a little easier! 😉) but there are real benefits of travel for both children *and* parents that I believe outweigh the barriers.

So let’s take a few minutes to celebrate those! I hope through it you’ll be inspired to pack up those bambinos of yours and hit the road!

September 17, 2019 0 comment