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photo by: Katee Grace This article originally appeared on Red Tricycle, see it here! The moment you get married the pregnancy questions flood in, “When are you guys having kids!? Don’t wait too long. You’re not drinking are you pregnant!?” Then there’s the well intentioned badgering during pregnancy, “How far along are you? Is it a boy or girl? You look ready to pop!” Finally you have a healthy beautiful baby and you think ‘Okay, I’ve given the people what they want!’ But it

We just booked another summer vacation in Europe with our toddler because, yes, we are insane. Either enough time has passed since our last trip and we’ve forgotten what it was like, or (and the reason for this blog) we feel like we are now experts by learning from our previous, huge, mistakes. Because I could write a short novel on traveling with baby/toddler I've broken this down into three blogs; Flights, Hotels and Itineraries. Last summer we took a ten day trip to Ital

Planning a trip is so exciting and important when traveling with little ones. Now that I've outlined how to survive flights and pick the right accommodations let's go over some do's when it comes to your actual itinerary while on vacation. Itinerary. There are two types of vacation personalities; those who want to do and see everything (my husband) and those who want to relax poolside, nap, relax some more and eat. I fall somewhere in the middle. Having a baby has actuall

Because my husband and I love to torture ourselves, we often find ourselves making many cross country trips with our toddler. Gone are the days when our sweet little babe would sleep in our arms and we could WATCH A MOVIE during a flight. Now we hold our breath and pray that she will sit still for the cumulative 20 minutes the plane takes off and lands. My biggest tip is: keep your expectations low. Like really low. Just know that you’re going to be entertaining your child in