Jeffrey and I are ALWAYS on the go... ALWAYS! We are out of town traveling most weekends and when we are not, we are always up to something. Even during the week we are going here-there-and-everywhere. I love staying busy and experiencing the big world out there! I grew up traveling as did Jeffrey. We both remember being woken up at 5:00 am on a Saturday and driving in the car for a million hours. My first road trip from Georgia to Ohio was at one month old!! I guess you can say I was born busy! My baby schedule was always booked.
Now that Jeffrey and I are expecting our first precious baby we have no desire to change our traveling lives at all. Will our lives be different once we have our girly? Of course! Once she arrives our lives will get busier, sweeter, harder, and so much more perfect. The best news....we will have another travel buddy; even if she screams the entire time, hey, at least she is cute.
My mom and mother-in-law both reassured me that your life begins once you have kids and that they traveled and took baby Kelsey and baby Jeffrey everywhere they went. I want the same for our daughter. I want her to see the world and travel with her cool mom and dad seeing and experiencing life. We already have a cabin weekend in Georgia planned when she is 8 weeks, a trip to North Carolina Mountains when she is 9 weeks, and a big trip to New York when she is 12 weeks. Not to mention the countless trips I am sure we will take to Georgia and Virginia. She is already scheduled more then most and she isn't even here yet. If you want to see baby girl Nelson, you better ask her to pencil you in now.
Needless to say, I refuse to believe your life ends when you have kids and that our traveling days are over. To those of you that believe that, keep your thoughts to yourself and stay far away from me! I choose to make the most of her and enjoy a life teaching her and watching her grow. Of course things will be different, of course they will be hard sometimes (isn't that life anyways), and sure she may scream the entire 10 hour car ride-- WHO CARES. She wont scream forever, she won't be little forever, and those memories you make on the stressful car ride are 100 times worth it.
We are those crazy parents that will always jump in the car with our 500 bags full of baby things and sing to the radio over our screaming child and we will take smiling selfies and cherish every single moment on the road with our daughter. I am literally giddy right now as I write this because I cannot wait to meet her and experience the world with someone Jeffrey and I created!
Eeeeek, Jeffrey if you're reading this-- we're having a daughter!!!! A perfect little daughter that has two parents that love her to the moon and beyond already! Can you tell I am excited, elated, and just beyond thrilled and full of bliss. Little Nelly, sweet girl- mommy and daddy love you SO much!
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