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When Lou was a few months old, we made plans to fly to the Bay Area and visit family. My cousin was graduating from high school and we wanted to be there for the big celebration. However, we really wanted to make the trek out there worth it, so we decided to go for a […]

When I was growing up, my maternal grandparents lived a few miles away and we spent almost every Thanksgiving and Christmas with them, along with my aunts, uncles, and cousin. My Dad’s side of the family is big but everyone lived within a 3 hour radius of each other, and we’d get together every year […]

We recently took a trip across the country from Mr. Dolphin’s brother’s wedding. Although both Lion and Panda have both been on plane rides individually, it was our first trip traveling with both children and it went more or less as I predicted. Really great on the way to Seattle when we took a morning […]

Now that the kids are seasoned travelers (Charlie has 30 flights under his belt and Olive has 28), I don’t worry about how they’ll handle all the travel. But going to a remote island in the Philippines still requires a lot of planning because we have to book several plane tickets, a hotel in Manila […]

I love flying. In another life, I am a flight attendant and it’s amazing. In this life, I just successfully completed my first solo trip involving flying with my eleven month old. Also amazing! Will’s daycare was closed for a week as his caretakers took a little vacation, and I decided it was the perfect […]

I just took my second and third solo flight with Bunny. Last time I wrote about flying with her she was 15 months; this time she was 18 months, and boy, oh boy, what a difference three months make. I held her as a lap child last time, but this time I opted to buy […]

Olive and Charlie have been on 24 and 26 flights respectively —  from hour long flights on puddle jumpers to 14 hour international flights, with their own seats and as lap infants. As they get older what we pack in our carry-on bags continues to pare down, particularly toys, but these are the items that […]