These trips involve a jaunt on Amtrak, a cheap Southwest flight, or even just a stay at a local hotel.
My daughter Harper was sitting with me in a crummy restaurant off Maryland’s I-270. The staff had obviously been counting on a nice evening with their own thoughts, and when we walked in the door 20 minutes before closing, we’d very apparently ruined everything. I stirred my lukewarm Diet Pepsi with my straw and worried about the venomous looks the cook was giving us as he assembled what the menu described as a quesadilla but seemed more like a cold American-cheese sandwich.
Her finger moved in a different direction. “Or if we go this way, west, we can go through this little tiny skinny part of Maryland.”She finished her lemonade and looked into her glass, disappointed. “Do you think they have refills?” she asked.The waitress was on her cellphone, agreeing with someone that Jennifer was a bitch. “We can ask,” I said.
Our four-person family has taken plenty of trips together, great adventures that bring us all closer together. We’ve even spent a year, as a group. The family vacation is a mainstay of American life for a reason. But we regularly travel another way with our kids—on one-parent, one-child trips. A few years into our new lives as parents of two, my wife and I noticed that while we loved our quartet, we also really treasured the moments when one of us got one-on-one time with Lyra or Harper. So much of our parenting time was spent managing both of them at the same time, which had its joys, but also featured so many fights about inane subjects that we stuck a list on our refrigerator titled “STUPID ARGUMENTS.
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