C's parents came up and visited for 3 days, they had business in the state between them and us, so they just extended and had a longer drive home. That was the beginning of last week. Both my folks will come up just after Christmas, don't know the schedule yet, but there is a breakfast on the 27th I'd really like my father to go to & would hate to drag C to/ or it might be more bearable for C if my father was there.
It is alot of work doing the packing and unpacking. As a father I say the following: If he doesn't get the job entailed, send him to the store one day, with the baby & make him pack the bag and take the baby. Next day, send him to the mall to pick up socks, same deal. ECFE sometimes has daddy and me classes, find out when and where and send him with baby to check it out (and hopefully sign up for the next session set) . . . basically, figure out three places to send your hubby in three days, back to back to back and make him take the baby, pack the diaper bag, and all that jazz. He should "get it" after that.
Ours is 14 months and we didn't have Christmas last year (I don't mean in the "didn't have presents" sense, I mean we sat agonizing in silence and waited and hurt) so this year we are doing our best not to let last year ruin this one. We sure aren't going to go anywhere. It is 8 hours to either set of parents and half way across the country to either of our siblings (opposite corners). I just don't see dragging a baby on more than a single hop. If you can work a loop cool, but more than that is just too much. Put another way, you child's schedule is hard to keep while traveling and being around stranger is taxing on the little ones. Ours gets progressively more exhausted and just won't rest enough, we can put her down, swaddle, or whatever, but she wants to see and hear everything & will not rest when we travel. Gotta put the baby first & sometimes that means asking people to come to you.
