We’re certainly very lucky in many ways, but besides the financial aspect, a lot of it is just practicing it with the kids and getting them used to it, which is

We’re certainly very lucky in many ways, but besides the financial aspect, a lot of it is just practicing it with the kids and getting them used to it, which is the case with many other things in their lives, and part of it is changing our own expectations about traveling. We go a lot slower than we used to, with more and longer stops on road trips, and give ourselves a lot more time/wiggle room at each place. If we need to drive 9 hours, we might break that into three days, and visit places that are about 3 hours apart. If we fly somewhere and it’s long, we try to go to immediately go to a hotel as close as possible to the airport so that we can all conk out if we need to. When we’re not stressed about timetables, it’s much easier for us all to have a good time. We don’t spend so much of our time at the destination, but that’s fine, there’s lots of cool stuff to see on the way, generally. We keep our schedule at the destination similarly sparse. Also, we take turns with everything, it’s not on mom. Don’t know how she’d handle that on her own. It takes work and energy, and we do some things differently than we used to, we’ve had to relearn some things, but it’s not putting the fun parts of life on pause for 10 years. You adapt, and still have a lot of fun, and you get to see these little people learn and grow, which is amazing. Ours are in a pun-making phase, which is hilarious and terrible.