Travelling with a toddler

We are now in the great USA after having made 4 plane trips with our 3 little rascals.  The girls being older were fine on the plane but the little man was a nightmare!!! Our first flight started at 11pm (bad idea) he was tired and grumpy as he is usually in bed by 5pm.  He screamed blue murder for the 30 minutes we were boarding the plane I was sure we were going to be asked to leave the plane, so I kept praying they would shut those doors.  Then he continued to cry for the next 30 mins as more and more bells were pressed around us with people asking for ear plugs.  The stress was unimaginable knowing you are disturbing everyone on the plane, no one would meet our eyes!! Then the over dressed extremely posh lady asked us if she could try settling him down, are you kidding me! I am not inept he was just not going to settle until he went to sleep. Hubby laughed when she asked me in the condescending tone, I told her to step off and let me handle my business.  The little one probably would have ripped her much styled curls out and slapped her a good  one, later as he slept peacefully I contemplated  how easy the trip would have been without a screaming toddler but looking at him all peaceful and gorgeous in hubbys arms I thought Nah, the other passengers can just suffer in their jocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What makes you happy!

I thought I would share the picture that makes me happy everyday! This sits on my desk and I love it, it is the girls at a Halloween party.

Countdown until holidays!!

photo courtesy of behindthestudio.com (I found it on Pinterest)

It is 1 week until we leave for America for 2 months.  We have a gorgeous friend who will be housesitting so we can leave a lot less stressed than might otherwise be the case.  We will be hitting the east coast from Florida, up to Washington and New York, then over to hawaii for a month over Christmas, all with 3 kids in tow!!  We are uber excited but also very nervous about being in the air for 20 hours with a 18 month old on our lap.  We know he will cry a lot, we know we will cry a lot (at least I will do mine i the privacy of the airplane bathroom!!).  He is so gorgeous and he has no idea what is coming his routine which is set in stone of sleeping from 5.30pm until 7am ,with a 2 hour nap thrown in at 11.30am is about to be uprooted in a big way.  It will involve long car rides, late nights and unfamiliar cots, I hope he manages ok.  But on the plus side we will be saying Mele Kalikimaka this year (Merry Christmas - from Hawaii) xoxo