The Holidays are officially over! sad face, sad face, sad face...but the 2014 is looking amazing! happy face, happy face, happy face. Now that I'm back in the swing of things I wanted to make a post today on something I realized during our time together. Ryan and I were fortunate enough get to travel with our family this holiday and apparently we are suicidal so we drove a 16 hour drive to Missouri (which turned out to be 18 hours), packed the car with all of our stuff, Christmas gifts, two boys under the age of 2 and two puppies. Yep insanity.So for my post today I would like to apologize to any parents I have ever judged for having kids crying in an airplane, for running after their child through the airport, for looking like a crazy person with diapers flying around the change table area at the gas station and just in general to parents I have judged during travels. I now understand it is definitely a lot more challenging than I ever imagined!
Here's the ironic thing...it was also surprisingly so much more fulfilling than I ever imagined. I realized it became a lot easier when I actually decided to have fun with it. Even though I don't know a whole lot about parenting I did learn a little something and I wanted to pass it on. Oftentimes if you actually try to enjoy the traveling (for example bringing games that you would both actually like, watching a movie that you both actually wouldn't mind watching, etc) actually made the trip so much more special.
I was also hoping I could ask you all our there to give those parents a break sometimes an airplane. I don't know how Ryan and I were so fortunate, but we got to have the "good kids" on the plane (it only took me singing itsy bitsy spider about 40 times). There was another little guy on the plane with us and he was ferociously crying for about 3 hours and my heart was breaking for his mom and dad were trying every single thing they could think of and for the little guy whose ears were probably killing him. Sometimes there are uncontrollables, but I promise you the parents dealing with the kiddo's that are crying are going through a lot worse than you are, so just put some headphones on and give them a break. Trust me...you don't want Karma getting you on this one!
In any case I just want to give a shout out to everyone and say Happy Holidays, Happy New Years and like good old Ellen DeGeneres says "let's start to be kind to one another" including strangers and our children! :)
