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<\/a>\nWe are now making our final descent into Santiago, Chile. <\/p>\n
Yesterday as I walked through the airport toward our gate, I chatted with my 13 year old son about how much easier it is to travel as a family now that our children are older. <\/p>\n
“It was definitely worth it. But traveling with little children is hard.”<\/p>\n
I told him about the time he, at about 15 months, on a flight to Denmark, had a crying spell just as everyone on the plane had settled and fallen asleep. <\/p>\n
“You had just settled down yourself and fallen asleep in the bassinette when we hit turbulence and the flight attendant asked me to take you out of the bassinette,” I said. <\/p>\n
At that point, back then, he had wailed and wailed, waking up passengers. I remember feeling terrible for him, terrible for everyone else on the flight and sweating as I tried anything I could do to soothe him. <\/p>\n
I remember one passenger, a man probably in his 40s who was particularly perturbed. He instructed me to sing softly to him.<\/p>\n
Yeah. As if I hadn’t tried that one yet. <\/p>\n
Eventually he did fall asleep and all was well once again. <\/p>\n
I explained to my son that each of our children had one unforgettable incident which, now, were actually finally fading from the forefront of my mind. (hallelujah!!)<\/p>\n
Our second child had had a similar crying incident at around 16 months and our third didn’t have a nighttime airplane crying incident I could remember, but did have a massive diaper blowout. Fortunately that happened at the airport after a flight from Houston to Paris, just before our connection to the next flight. I was able to get her cleaned up in a regular bathroom as opposed to a cramped airplane lavatory. (You gotta be thankful for those little blessings like that when traveling!)<\/p>\n
As I shared this with my son, we both laughed a little as to how much easier it had become. <\/p>\n
We have enjoyed traveling together, internationally and domestically, since each of the children were babies. Some trips held sickness and confusion, frustration at times in navigating a city or a menu, but all trips have held great joys, interesting sights and adventures we have explored, conquered and experienced together. <\/p>\n
And now the next adventure begins… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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