Comments on Devarim: What I Learned On My Summer Vacation

The drive to New York takes at least twice as long...

2007-09-10T09:45:00.000-04:00

The drive to New York takes at least twice as long with two babies in the car.

Um, yeah - but it only *takes* one. Several of us could have mentioned that if you had only asked (not that it would have occurred to you until it was too late) . . .

and MiriamP's suggestion of driving at night depends on the individual kids; I had a 2YO who would go to sleep in the car "on schedule" (around 7pm), but then wake up after 9pm, screaming, because it wasn't her bed.

We once spent a miserable hour (9:30 - 10:30 pm) with an incoherent child screaming for a specific local park. We were on our way back from southern NJ at the time, and the park closes at dusk anyway. ah, the joys of parenthood.

"Seagulls like poopy diapers." ::shudder::We just ...

2007-09-05T10:18:00.000-04:00

"Seagulls like poopy diapers." ::shudder::

We just got back from a trip to grandparents too. I have resigned myself to the fact that we will never go anywhere with just carryon luggage ever again.

Mazel Tov! You've just discovered why all our lon...

2007-09-05T10:02:00.000-04:00

Mazel Tov! You've just discovered why all our long (ie over an hour) car trips took place at night. We'd rather arrive with one parent completely exhausted from driving all night than deal with multiple children awake and not interested in being strapped in and/or needing diaper/nursing/potty stops! And at some point we just stopped doing the shlepping and made everyone over an hour away just come visit us instead. Not that it works for smachot -- they're an exception, except that we haven't *all* attended anything since your wedding. Mostly because when only the grown-ups are invited to a "long-distance" event and you have a dozen (okay, half a dozen or so) kids to farm out, it's easier to send one parent (and the "baby" if the parent is the mama) and have the other one stay home with the kids.