{"id":17316,"date":"2018-02-24T17:39:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-25T00:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/julieharrisphotography.com\/blog\/?p=17316"},"modified":"2024-03-03T15:54:55","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T22:54:55","slug":"san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/julieharrisphotography.com\/blog\/san-diego\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are finally at a place where we can travel together as a family and actually call it a vacation.\u00a0 The kids are fine on a plane with a bag of candy and a couple of devices.\u00a0 We can get a home on VRBO and Ramona and Sylvie can share a room, while Jesse and I can have our own.\u00a0 (Netflix, baby!)<\/em> \u00a0 Meals are easier when we go out. Bedtime is flexible.\u00a0 The kids can swim.\u00a0 It’s pretty dreamy, actually.<\/p>\n

Travel is my jam.\u00a0 I don’t care what kind of car I drive or how big my house is.\u00a0 I don’t care if my dinner plates match or even if I get my roots done every 6 weeks.\u00a0 But travel is an actual necessity.\u00a0 I can’t live without it.\u00a0 I really can’t.\u00a0 For awhile it was tough, I won’t lie.\u00a0 We had to find someone to stay with the girls while we went away. I couldn’t actually be present wherever I was, because my heart was at home with my kids.\u00a0 If we did bring our kids, we had to bring a nanny so that we could actually enjoy our vacation and that was breaking the bank.\u00a0 But we’ve arrived.\u00a0 Traveling together works now.\u00a0 We have fun, and we are making memories.<\/p>\n

When I was growing up, my\u00a0 parents used to load all of us four kids into a big Econo-van every Thanksgiving and drive to Arkansas.\u00a0 WE WOULD DRIVE. This wasn’t just when I was little, either. This went on through my college years.\u00a0 But in all seriousness, these are some of my best memories as a kid.\u00a0 Stopping at gas stations every 4 hours and loading up on junk food, sleeping in the car, fighting over the game boy–these were the times when I would actually be forced to be with my family for hours at a time.\u00a0 And that was just the drive.\u00a0 When we would actually get to Arkansas we would be bored out of our minds, so we would have to find things to do.\u00a0 Me and my brothers would go on long walks together or my sister and I would go to Walmart (which was always a highlight of our trip, might I add).\u00a0 It wasn’t fancy hotels or trips to amusement parks that I loved.\u00a0 It was the time together–the memories made.\u00a0 Collective mindfulness, if you will.\u00a0 It was rich.<\/p>\n

I want my kids to have this.\u00a0 I want their memories of our time together to go beyond our backyard.\u00a0 I want them to appreciate our vacations even if it’s just ordering pizza and sitting in a hot tub or sharing a can of coke in a HOJO. I don’t have forever with these girls.\u00a0 In 15 years, there won’t be family vacations like these.\u00a0 Ramona and Sylvie will be taking their own spring breaks or God forbid, trips with their boyfriends.\u00a0 Their priorities will be different and Jesse and I will yearn for the days when we could just hole up in some house in some random state and simply be together–just a good vacation from the hamster wheel.<\/p>\n

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