{"id":2925,"date":"2009-09-23T07:09:04","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T14:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=2925"},"modified":"2009-09-23T06:59:03","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T13:59:03","slug":"some-thoughts-on-traveling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=2925","title":{"rendered":"Some thoughts on traveling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being the worrier that I am, I&#8217;ve always fretted about traveling with kids; my primary concerns were that Zoe would cry and fuss and that everyone on the plane would hate us. There have been a few rough moments on various flights, of course, but the truth is that we&#8217;ve never had any major problems when flying with Zoe. And, I&#8217;m happy to report that adding Avery to the mix hasn&#8217;t been <em>too <\/em>difficult (yet): on our recent flights, she mostly slept (see below) or sat in my arms quietly. But traveling involves a lot more than just getting to and from your destination &#8211; and the hard part often involves dealing with kids once you&#8217;re on the ground. Zoe can get quite grumpy when off-schedule, and Avery clearly has a tough time adjusting to the new time zones. (It was rough on both ends of our recent trip, and she hasn&#8217;t slept a normal night &#8211; i.e. waking up just once to eat &#8211; since before we left.)<\/p>\n<p>Despite the rough moments, and my anxiety about them, we&#8217;ll still continue to travel. (And I&#8217;m even doing a first &#8211; flying alone with the baby &#8211; tomorrow. I&#8217;m nervous, but trying not to stress too much about it.) Our families live far away, so we don&#8217;t have much choice, plus Q and I made a pre-Zoe vow not to let kids keep us on the ground. And besides, as my mantra goes (and as with everything involving parenting and little kids), it will get easier!<\/p>\n<p>-M <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image2926\" alt=bundled-up-avery.JPG src=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/bundled-up-avery.JPG\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being the worrier that I am, I&#8217;ve always fretted about traveling with kids; my primary concerns were that Zoe would cry and fuss and that everyone on the plane would hate us. There have been a few rough moments on various flights, of course, but the truth is that we&#8217;ve never had any major problems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-38two-kids-september-09"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}