Good times travelling with kids!I can't believe these stories, I am relieved mine weren't that bad! The stress was almost tangible reading them, ugh, anxiety is just spreading through me thinking about them.
Why does travelling stink so bad? Well, in the case of some of you it was barf and poopy diapers. Or face off flight attendants--I really hope you sent in a formal complaint!! That is soo rude! I'm relieved to be done with it for a while.
We just got home from our last flight for a long time with the girls and survived, but I tell you, we barely survived the first one to OR. Felicity goes to bed at 6/6:30pm and Hazel 7:30. Felicity fell asleep at 1am during the descent and Hazel stayed up to watch it all happen. I don't even want to recap any of that trip. After we got off the plane Josh asked something about if it was the worst night of my life too. I couldn't really answer at that point and didn't say much all the way home because it was so awful.
Thankfully this leg home wasn't too bad, except a few times when I wanted to give the Hnut back to her pitiful parents and kept realizing that only works with neices and nephews. She just had a few spells sprawled out blocking the isle by the bathroom in the ice chunks she'd dumped on the floor. Who knows, tired I suppose. She also tried to grab the poopy diaper (that I had changed right in our seat) and throw it at someone. Tired again I suppose? Oh, and smashing, ripping and throwing her hamburger all over us, the floor and the seat when I asked to help hold it. Really tired?
Seriously, the girl is such a doll so much of the time, lack of sleep just turns her into a little monster sometimes and then she'll snap back out of it and be sweet again. Exhausting on a long flight! Thankfully I'd splurged on a couple of cool new books that kept her happy and busy for a while and that was a huge blessing and I realized I might be able to handle motherhood again. Josh would have helped more with this saga except that he was strapped to a sleeping baby that neither of us wanted to stop a good thing (he'd already had a turn with the older tike). Okay, but we're back and off of it and back in our comfortable home where hopefully things will be much easier!
GOOD JOB TO ALL OF YOU SURVIVING TRAVELLED MOMS!!!
Q: What's one of the best things you do when you're really stressed with your kids to either prevent you from losing it or regain it once it's been lost?
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Honestly, I think sometimes the simplest solutions are the best. A lot of times I just have to get away from the er...scene of the crime, so to speak. So I leave the house, usually just dumping the kids in the stroller and power-walking my frustration out. They'll stop crying because they're outside and there's new things to look at, and the endorphins make me sane again.
This is why winter is a hard time around here...and why I just ran and ran and ran today on the treadmill while the girls were napping. I was dizzy when I got off...it was a BAD morning. Needed lots of running.
I'm dying to see pix from your trip! I didn't know when you were returning and I've been checking of pix! I about died when I saw those kids in the airplane "stow away zones!" I zoomed in real close to see if they were yours!!! That's SO funny.
In response to your question. I don't know that I have a great story to share. Maybe in 15 years I'll have an answer to that?
Running always seems to help, that's for sure. Just don't have enough running in me sometimes!
About that picture, I guess it was photoshopped for a competition. Looks real!
You are so brave to travel with kids! I just avoid it all together! As for the stress??? I just have to ask myself if this is really as big of a deal as I think it is and whether or not it will matter a few days/weeks/months from now. Usually I am satisfied with the answer. Or I just cry. And running works for me, too!
I load the kids up in the car and go get snow cones. They are happier because we're away from the house and getting sugar, and I'm happier because they are quiet and I get to taste my peach almond Italian Soda. I usually regain my composure after that.
I like all of these ideas, but Kyndra where are you to have a car?? I've never had a peach almond Italian Soda but it sounds wonderfully surprising.
Sabrina, I like the crying part, sometimes I get to that too.
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