{"id":4414,"date":"2010-04-02T12:47:46","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T20:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=4414"},"modified":"2010-04-02T12:50:13","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T20:50:13","slug":"more-thoughts-on-traveling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=4414","title":{"rendered":"More thoughts on traveling"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other night, as I was getting off the plane with the girls, a ragged-looking woman walked past me with her small child and said, “How do you manage it?” She was referring to the fact that we were traveling with two kids, and I just gave her a sympathetic smile and shrug. While air-travel is<\/em> a pretty big pain these days, the truth is that this trip was our smoothest yet – and it (somewhat) lessened my stress over traveling with two.<\/p>\n

Both girls gave me something to cheer about during this trip. Avery has always been good on planes, but she has had problems adjusting to new environments in the past – during previous trips<\/a>, she didn’t adapt well to the new time zone, and she didn’t sleep well away from her crib. She was like a different girl last week, though. She had no problems sleeping in a new bed and had good, long stretches of sleep (which means we<\/em> had good nights’ sleep, too) at her grandparents’ house. And she had no problem getting back to our time zone when we got home. (Considering that I don’t do well with being sleep deprived and getting off schedule, this was a huge plus.)<\/p>\n

As for Zoe, she’s a relatively good traveler but has still had a few meltdowns\/tantrums on flights in the past. (What 3-year-old likes to be confined for six hours?) I decided to try something new for this trip, so a few days prior to our departure I started talking about our flight and the fact that “there’s no crying on airplanes.” I also told her that if she listened well and didn’t cry during our flights, she would get a present. I’m not sure if it was the combination of those two things, or just a coincidence, but Zoe was amazingly good on each flight (and when she started to get sad a few times, I reminded her about our no-crying rule). I’m not usually into bribing, but when it comes to travel, I say anything goes!<\/p>\n

Everything wasn’t all sunshine and roses, of course. As was written all over that woman’s face, traveling with kids – even well-behaved ones – is an exhausting endeavor, and it doesn’t help when the kids barely sleep (which was the case on our long flight home). Still, I’m heartened that things were better than I thought they would be, and I can envision the day when I can fly without once thinking, “I’m never traveling again!”<\/p>\n

-M<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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