Packing Heat

No, not talking about toting guns gangster-style.  This is in reference to the self-induced sweaty, panicky lather I work myself into every time we try to leave for a trip (or the house in general for that matter).  And I only have 2 kids. I absolutely cannot imagine how you parents with more do it.  You would think packing for my in-laws would be easy.  My MIL, God bless her, has almost everything you could possibly need or want for a baby and a toddler.  The plan is to leave today at 4:30pm.  All I can say to my neighbors–relax.  When you see the dark grey minivan packed to the gills with heaven knows what and a psychotic barking dog finally pull out around midnight and then make the requisite 3-4 trips back to get the things we forgot, it is just the Spidel family.  You are not being stalked with drive-bys from a local gang.

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Meredith

Meredith blogs at The Mom of the Year, where she dedicatedly earns her title one epic parenting fail at a time, offering quick, relatable laughs for fellow parents and all their empathizers. She has been part of several best-selling anthologies, featured on prominent sites such as Huffington Post, In the Powder Room and BlogHer, and loves her role as the Executive VP/Operations Manager of The BlogU Conference. When she's not breaking up fights over Legos and juice boxes, she remains fully committed to sharing a less serious look at the world of parenting.

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