Vacation | Before & After Children

A vacation for James and I three years ago would have consisted of the following:

• a flight to a tropical destination
• driving the countryside in a rental car looking for beautiful coastal cities
• stopping at various hotel/resorts and picking the one with the best ocean view
• sleeping til 10am and spending the day on the beach
• eating meals whenever we got hunger and filling the in between time with cocktails

A vacation now for us with two kids goes more like this:

• 6 hour car drive to the beach with mommy trying to entertain the munchkins when they are awake
• carrying two pack 'n plays and lots of toys in the Sequoia
• sleeping in the same room as the kids & waking up at 5 am every morning
  
• spending from 9 to noon on the beach with one kid who cries if sand gets on him and the other who is delighted by a bucket of water
• routinely eat meals and putting kids down for naps
• enjoying the one hour of quiet time after the kids go to sleep with your spouse before you pass out from the exhausting day of managing the kiddos

And the pictures below sum up our whole vacation at SeaGrove Beach - - -