“It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.” I think that sums up vacationing with kids pretty well. The highs and lows can be very stressful for us as parents, not to mention all the time and money spent planning the trip and then executing those plans!
We’re halfway through a week-long family vacation to our favorite beach town in Florida, and we’ve had a couple of rough patches so far. But one of the great things about kids is they forgive and forget pretty quickly. Our girls won’t remember that we got locked out of the condo and had to stand around in the sweltering heat for an hour and a half waiting to get in. Or that I nearly had a nervous breakdown when I got the screen of death (“you must reset your device to factory settings”) on my cell phone. Or that we tried to have a low-key dinner one evening and I BURNT the crap out of a frozen pizza (picture in comments). Or that the baby once got so hysterically upset that we had to drive her around town to get her to fall asleep and ended up sitting in the hospital parking lot for an hour watching her breathe, just in case. And if they do remember those things, it will most likely be with a laugh.
