Could you please modify this post? This content is copyrighted and cannot be reprinted in whole on your blog. You're welcome to keep a paragraph and the link if you wish, but not the entire post. Please let me know when this is remedied. Thanks!
We try to travel as much as possible with our kids for luxury family friendly holidays before they start school as then it get a lot more complicated.It is always good to read about new places to visit.
October 21, 2016 at 9:10 AM
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Guest blogger today: Daughter Eleni Gage Baltodano, who wrote this funny essay about part of our Greek odyssey in June, when she had a two-month-old son and a three-year-old daughter in tow (as well as husband Emilio, and Papou Nick and Yiayia Joanie ) and her breast milk pump had a melt down. She wrote it for Pure Wander Magazine which is "Your Destination for Unique Family Vacations."
I'm posting here the first two paragraphs of her essay. To read the whole thing, including what happened when the breast pump exploded, visit the Pure Wander site below.
When
I planned a family trip to Greece for June, the last month of my
maternity leave, I thought it was a stroke of Mommy Genius. I envisioned
my parents babysitting our almost-four-year-old daughter and our
just-two-month-old son while my husband, Emilio, and I enjoyed long
dinners at outdoor cafés on the romantic cobblestoned streets of Corfu
Town.
People told me I was crazy to travel with an infant,
but I missed my cousins in Greece and wanted to visit while I was still
on leave, so I wouldn’t use up my precious vacation time. With my
parents along for the ride, I’d have plenty of help. And this wasn’t my
first rodeo; I knew what I was doing. I got the baby’s two-month
vaccines and made sure his passport arrived in time for the flights we’d
purchased; with all that done, I figured I was in the running for
Mother of the Year.
It wasn’t until we arrived on Corfu that I realized I had left the
essential funnel/cone components of my electric breast pump at home in
New York...
Eleni N. Gage is an avid travel writer and author of Ladies of Managua[Image]. Find out more about her global family travel adventures and beyond on her website.
"Traveling in Greece with Babies and Grandparents"
5 Comments -
Hi Joan -
Could you please modify this post? This content is copyrighted and cannot be reprinted in whole on your blog. You're welcome to keep a paragraph and the link if you wish, but not the entire post. Please let me know when this is remedied. Thanks!
-Eileen, owner of Pure Wander
October 14, 2015 at 1:30 PM
Will do, Eileen! Sorry about that!
Joan
October 14, 2015 at 1:36 PM
No worries Joan - also didn't realize you were Eleni's mother, apologizes! Look forward to seeing more of your writings as well!
October 14, 2015 at 2:49 PM
I'm going just for the waterslide...wow that looks like fun!
October 15, 2015 at 10:24 AM
We try to travel as much as possible with our kids for luxury family friendly holidays before they start school as then it get a lot more complicated.It is always good to read about new places to visit.
October 21, 2016 at 9:10 AM