Traveling with three kids is messy, challenging and wonderful. It is nothing like traveling by yourself or with just adults. But we might have figured some things out on our latest adventure.
The relating of your trip was fun to read, and it sounds like many solid choices were made, allowing everyone to enjoy the beginning of summer--and the rewards of coming through the house buying and selling months. As parents know, even though love is involved when interacting with our children, day-to-day behaviors vary, and with three children that variance is considerably ramped up. But you two illustrate how parents can productively, carefully, lovingly help develop wonderful people. Of course, such moves aren't always easy. . . .
My retirement has caused me to start journaling again which I hadn’t done since graduating from college and starting to work, get married and raise a family. The time we spend vacationing is so different than when we, to use your description, take trips with our kids and grandkids. We see the world through their eyes and understand their wants. When it is just the two of us, time passes so quickly that in order to remember the days I started journaling again. Vacationing as a couple is living our life, just in a different place doing some different things. But it is peaceful, it is harmony, it is bliss. But when I look at the pictures and reread the messages we shared with our kids and grandkids on our trips, I smile and know that the memories we made we will share forever.
The relating of your trip was fun to read, and it sounds like many solid choices were made, allowing everyone to enjoy the beginning of summer--and the rewards of coming through the house buying and selling months. As parents know, even though love is involved when interacting with our children, day-to-day behaviors vary, and with three children that variance is considerably ramped up. But you two illustrate how parents can productively, carefully, lovingly help develop wonderful people. Of course, such moves aren't always easy. . . .
My retirement has caused me to start journaling again which I hadn’t done since graduating from college and starting to work, get married and raise a family. The time we spend vacationing is so different than when we, to use your description, take trips with our kids and grandkids. We see the world through their eyes and understand their wants. When it is just the two of us, time passes so quickly that in order to remember the days I started journaling again. Vacationing as a couple is living our life, just in a different place doing some different things. But it is peaceful, it is harmony, it is bliss. But when I look at the pictures and reread the messages we shared with our kids and grandkids on our trips, I smile and know that the memories we made we will share forever.